MattDovey wrote:Curses! I liked the way they went about things.
I once found myself with the perfect story for one of their themes--an android story with a gay protagonist--and had to decide between submitting to them or entering it here. It was the best story I'd written to that point, and I really, really wanted to win the contest, but CG's theme submission window would be closed by the time said story would get rejected from WoTFC, if rejected it would be. So: best chance yet of winning the contest, or decent chance of publication in CG, especially as I was unpublished so had a chance of filling their monthly newbie slot?
In the end, it was the first of my HMs here, but I always wanted to make it up to CG (in a manner of speaking) by submitting something good there. I'll never get that chance now.
I have a similar tale with a different outcome. I also wrote the perfect story for one of their themes (or at least I supposed so), but I
did sent it to them first. They form-rejected it, and later (after Critters and big-time revision) I sent it to WOTF and it came to be my semi-finalist. Then I sent it again to Crossed Genres for another theme (which it fit even better) and it was form-rejected again.