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Congratulations Wulf. Looking forward to reading your story.

Congratulations Brittany. Nearly there.

Good luck to everyone in the first quarter of 36. Write, write, write.

Welcome to those who have posted and those who have not. Good luck to you all. The Forum is unique as a resource for any number of writing needs. Need advice - post a question. Need a critique - ask for an exchange. Don't worry if your question has been asked before, just ask and someone will answer...

aidanka wrote: I just wonder what is anti-dave everything? i couldn't find any article about it. could you please spare me? Ms. Pang is being a bit too self-deprecating. She is a very good writer as pro editors are finding out. Dave's list of ten reasons why he will quickly reject a story( https://m...

Hope for my stories? These are my children, grown from a place of wonder. Raised with discipline to entertain anyone with a spare twenty minutes. Submitted by themselves to stand alone or fall in a critical world of capitalistic judgment. One rejection has been converted to a format I have performed...

vsutherland01 wrote: I am still at the point where my absolute best effort barely makes an HM. There is no degree of HM. The odds of receiving one are one in ten. So your story beat ninety percent of all others in a professional setting. It was read by an award winning professional author and editor...

The hard drive on my old laptop died last week. Data has been recovered and computer switched to a solid state hard drive. Now I'm looking to replace my word processor and photo editor. Perhaps our intrepid Forumites have knowledge of these things and would care to share. I'm most familiar with Micr...

Science Fiction

Submitted: 6/18/18

Rejected: 10/4/18

Congratulations, Rebecca!

Hi Becky, I reread the story I believe you entered for Q2. The beginning may have taken too long to build Narrative Momentum. Check out this blog post: http://www.laurelcohn.com.au/Narrative%20momentum.html I'm still sold on the story and am stunned that it received a straight R. Best of luck, Kent

Welcome to the Forum, Shannon, Best of luck with your first entry, that's the biggest hurdle many writers have to get over. Many of us could sit for hours painstakingly editing every word in our stories until everything feels perfect. And in that way, I've edited the life right out of two stories. D...

Welcome to the Forum, LorenzoAL, You're in the right place for critiques and story exchanges. There are many people aboard who will exchange with you. The usual place to ask is on the Story Critique Exchange ( http://forum.writersofthefuture.com/viewforum.php?f=15 ). PM me for an exchange. Best of l...

Go Karmstrong!

Welcome to the Forum.

It's wonderfully scary feeling when you submit. Lightning might strike on your first try.

PM if you ever need a critique.

Good Luck,
Kent

Thanks, Matt,

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Hi Becky, You can find the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) manuscript preparation guidelines here: http://www.sfwa.org/2008/11/manuscript-preparation/ . These are the standard guidelines that nearly every market follows when their fiction guidelines instruct the author to &qu...

Welcome, new Forumites,

I'm always impressed by the broad range of experience represented.

Good luck to all.

Kent

Didn't realize that my Five Minute Rant would have quite so much interest. I wrote that after receiving a number of meaningless rejections. The old Hot and Cold game occurred to me as a - tongue in cheek - option for rejection standardization. YM Pang brought up its resemblance to the currently offe...

Love the dancing bananas.

Congratulations Preston!

amoskalik wrote: An intriguing idea. If they could actually pull it off, it would be very helpful... Thank you, glad you agree. <Pats self on back> Got something in my eye when I saw "however." This wouldn't be the traditional game, but more like a blind guy at the target end of a shooting...

Hot and Cold Has anyone played that kid's game? Kid One hides an object somewhere in a room and Kid Two tries to find it. Kid One calls out, "You're getting hotter" as Kid Two approaches the object and, "You're getting colder" as Kid Two moves farther from it. The point is for Ki...

Get it out, man. Just let it all go.

I look for results at three and a half months. *Twitch* If they're not in by three and a half months, I figure I've made the first pass. *Twitch, twitch* When results come in on the Forum, but not mine, I... *Twitch, twitch, twitch. Hide under covers while poking Refresh* When finalists announce on ...

Hi PhoenixHays, Rule #6, sentence 4 states: Entries submitted electronically must be double-spaced and must include the title and page number on each page, but not the author’s name. So, I have a different opinion on your entry's chances. On the bright side (if indeed it is rejected in the first pas...

Hi Ms. Luck,
Great handle. Hope it's prophetic.

Hi SueD,
Sorry about the litigation. <Rim shot>
Very cool being able to meet the winners.

Welcome to the Forum!

Hello Rider and Y.M.,
Thank you for joining. Hope you both find the community you're looking for, here.
Best of luck in the contest,
Kent

Hi manchowder1, Rule #3 states the answer to both questions: All entries must be original works by the entrant, in English. Plagiarism, which includes the use of third-party poetry, song lyrics, characters or another person’s universe, without written permission, will result in disqualification. Exc...

When reading to critique a manuscript: Assume the manuscript is perfect the first read through. I could lie, tell of the rules I really want to follow, but don't always. I like to plot, but have never plotted the same way twice, and sometimes not at all. I like to allow two weeks for a manuscript to...

Welcome Grace,
Good luck!

Kent

Welcome Blake, Yes, an R is a rejection. Most rejections come in the first wave of results, which is why we all hope to hear results later. It comes in the form of an email from Joni informing one that: "Your story has been judged and did not place..." It is kind and offers the author a ch...

What is the most logical conclusion to a current trend? = Setting/milieu What are the two most incongruous ideas (one SF and one character oriented) I can smash together to create the core problem of a story? How will a character with certain traits react if she/he is forced into a situation where n...

Welcome Phillip and other newcomers, posted or not, Post. Post now! Don't just mine old threads for tidbits (though there are lots of healthy tidbits), but ask your own gripping questions. Maybe there's someone on the Forum who wasn't here for the last thread that dealt with your quandary. Maybe you...