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To quote a famous time-traveling scientist, "Damn, Damn."

And because this was #3... "Damn."

So, Henkel said grats, but didn't offer his final placement...
I believe there's a girl in glasses we're also waiting to hear from...

I can't get past my third scene. I've written it five times now, each time anew, but it's never memorable or original enough for me. It just ends up as cliche dialog to me that works to move on with the story. Oh well. Reuben, E-mail me. Tell me the set up of the scene, then attach it. I know it's ...

Welcome, Pezel and Dom!

Join in the quarterly twitching. V.37 is in the past.
Long live V.38!

Woot!
Awesome!

Fingers crossed they both make it to the BIG show next year (and that there is a big show next year).

The more I chew on this the more I get myself worked up. I figured this first entry to be a quick and easy R, I've never submitted anything anywhere before. Getting a Silver out of it makes me wonder if I would be better served to polish it up and try again for maybe Q2 or 3 of v38. I don't relish ...

Alex,

Did that story have anything to do with a flood?

Nice!

Glad to see so many + results, y'all.

Reuben wrote:They sent out the winners already? According to The Grinder there's one acceptance.

Very low chance of that.
Sometimes folks misinterpret the HM as an acceptance. Or the subject of the e-mail...

Better than I thought!

Eager to get the critique.
Since my first one, I play a game before submitting: What would Dave write in his critique?
If I find something, I fix it.
So I'm curious here... what did I miss?

pdblake wrote:Submitted yesterday.

Sweet!
Two months early. Nice.

Welcome back!

Good ol' V.29
I think there's still an active thread around here somewhere. :)

Adam Colston started his WotF career with two R - and then a win. Tina Gower had three R - then a Golden win. Excellent choice to seek some eyes. Especially here where we focus on the contest itself. Send me a PM and I'll have a look at the first 450 - 1000 words if you're interested. I'm pretty goo...

Congrats! Nice first-time showing. The # isn't revealed. It's said they don't want to intimidate those who may think the odds would be against them. Then follow that up with "thousands", which may be considered intimidating to some. wotf017 My view is the odds of getting an HM are the same...

The blog post is up.

https://www.writersofthefuture.com/cate ... y-winners/

Winners:
First Place – Trent Walters from Missouri
Second Place – Luke Wildman from Indiana
Third Place – Erik Lynd from Washington

Indeed. Good or bad -- spill.

Indeed.
I have, for the last few stories (read: year) been writing a ton of notes by hand. It's a new thing, and I love it.
But when there's no active story, there's no notes, and I miss it.

Added Liz's and Martin's to the list.

Popping in with a link - in case anyone missed the Kitchen Sink post: http://forum.writersofthefuture.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=8050 There's a small group of us who plan to write 1-3 NEW 450 word story openers over the next three months. The idea is to hone our story-opening skills through writin...

Hey Sean, I saw your interview where you specifically said you did this, and you did!

Re-read your story the other day. Forgot how artistically written it is. Most excellent.

Howdy Fagan, It's never a bad idea. Never ever. Your muse is your muse and writing new words is always good. Ultimately an audience may disagree, but you gotta write what you gotta write. If you're asking when to cut bait and start something new, only you can answer that (self-doubt is a fickle as a...

Whoa. Sweet! Any spam folders to check?
Gotta update your signature. :)

Beth Powers wrote:Honorable Mention for me!

Our inspirational story!

I'm relatively new here, as this was my first quarter. But I'm excited to have received an honorable mention! On to the next. I didn't submit to Q4 since none of my newer stories are quite up to snuff yet, but I will definitely be entering again in the new year. Sweet! Get that Q1 ready. You've got...

Dragonchef wrote:wotf020
I still haven't heard anything.

Seems finalists have been called. I say go ahead and query at this point.

Thanks for your kind words about my first HM. Out of interest, do any of you ever engage in a sort of post-game analysis? Where you try to find the parts that kept your story from reaching higher? I think it might be something that could help me. Grats Valiant! Sometimes folks with like minds will ...

SHM for me. Nice after taking a break from short stories for a while. Just checking in to thank those who kindly beta'd my work, despite me not having been active on this forum for a few years. It was great of you to take a look. Hope you did well too! Grats to all on your HMs' and more. To those g...

nreavis wrote:HM for me, 3rd in a row :)

Noice.

Got an R :/ sad because I thought this was my best yet yet. But I did realize that the first couple pages are a little weak. So could have been rejected there. Gonna go see what I can do about it... Then maybe I'll resubmit. Never done that but I really don't think it was read past the beginning. I...

Corbin Maxwell wrote:Sentences and paragraphs are what it’s about for me.

Me too. It's probably why I write my ideas in a week then edit for the next 2+ months.