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Thanks, Amy.

I just heard from Joni. HM for me. wotf014 After coming so close in the past, this was a letdown, as I thought this one had a better chance than my others. As is well known, the author is the worst critic of their own work. Onward to the next story. Don't feel too bad, Laurie. There can be a gazill...

I just heard from Joni. HM for me.

After coming so close in the past, this was a letdown, as I thought this one had a better chance than my others. As is well known, the author is the worst critic of their own work.

Onward to the next story.

I have heard nothing

Time to email Joni.

Published Finalists are chosen if the winning stories would create a lopsided anthology. So, if the majority of winners are fantasy, a SF Finalist story will go into the anthology. If the winners would create a shorter anthology, a longer Finalist will be included. That kind of thing.

Wow, Amy, that is awesome news!!

And the twins?

Alas, I have several letters from him, some specific enough I counted them as personals.

Now, the real question is, what's my Scooby snack?

Like Preston said, the shortest was "Just Don't". One short page. I still can't figure out why it won, because the story itself made no sense.

There was a winner several years ago whose main character was a girl of, I think, 11. She was trying to escape a child molester in a space station. Beautifully written, thus it won.

amyhg wrote:wotf058

O_O

I can't decide if I'm twitching more from waiting for placement results or for my twins to come.

Hooray!

First, congratulations to those that got honors. It means you are writing at a level that an NYT bestselling author feels obligated to acknowledge. It's the equivalent of an editor at a pro magazine saying, "This one didn't quite do it for me, alas, but please send me your next." Well don...

Welcome back, Michael Kingswood.

It felt good to be done, but now that feeling has passed. I am just anxiously waiting for that big R in 2.5 months haha. I hope not; I put a ton of work into this one. I just want to make it into the HM club. The users on this forum gave me some amazing critiques. I basically rewrote most of my sto...

Follow your gut and stick with 1st person. With many mental illnesses, everything is [i]now. [i] All of time is smashed together, past, present and future. It's all " right now". Sounds like present tense is exactly right for this character.

I'm in. Fri 30/06. Random Q: has anyone discovered anything interesting by using the date of submission data? The waves seem to come all at once for everyone,from what I've seen, regardless of when you submitted in the quarter. Except for paper subs, of course. I don't recall a full statistical ana...

OK, portal is open and I'm in. I LOVE this story!

This is my 29th submission. I think it's time I won this puppy.

hlreinhold wrote:Just submitted my entry. I'm not especially happy with it, but hey, a submission's better than a non-submission. We'll see.

Exactly. Some winners didn't think their story would make it, but it did.

michaeljwyantjr wrote:There's nothing better than writing a huge chunk of text thinking that it's absolute crap, leaving it alone in disgust for the night, then coming back and reading it and realizing it's actually quite good. Makes the stress worthwhile.

Yep.

disgruntledpeony wrote:wotf039 I HATE THIS STORY WITH THE FIERY PASSION OF A THOUSAND SUNS.

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*sighs*

*keeps writing*

I hit that point with almost every story I write. Then comes the 'This is total crap' stage. Then I push through that and am ok.

And, Neil Gaiman goes through the same thing!

Congrats on the Finalist, Ysocks! On your third entry, too!

Jeremy, WOW! Super Congrats!

Inky, hang in there! The judge's feedback is a new thing, I think. I would have loved that for my Finalists, but, alas, it wasn't so.

Submitted 29 Dec 16.

HM 27 April 17.

I hereby decree Saturday, April 15, to be an honorary Thursday.

You guys are funny!

Yes, that's exactly what I meant.

Hello Jareb and Hire, and welcome! I've hung out here for many years, and it has helped my writing tremendously. Plus it's a good gang of folks. At least this week I will not need to twitch with anticipation/dread, because there won't be judging happening. Have you also been following the blog? This...

They'd become a terrorist.

I occasionally hear about something like that and am always astonished. Maybe there should be something like the Darwin awards, for writers who remove themselves from the 'gene pool' of writers through their own stupidity.

Apparently I didn't report in. I submitted Dec 30. Haven't heard yet.





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And I have news of my own as well. Achievement unlocked: after several attempts I finally managed to have a story accepted by Grievous Angel. Bonus: it was the first of my micro-stories (100 words) to sell. Extra bonus: this ended a dreary dry spell of over two months interspersed with a lot of exc...