RWC
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: HM Q2: WIP Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 19 submitted 0 acceptances
2024: 45 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
So.....
Boy-howdy does it feel good to use that emoji!
Not gonna lie. It's hard to function as a human as I wait for that second call. I got much to say, many thanks to give to this community. For now, I'll save that for another post cuz my head's a big ol' mush of emotions. The twitch is strong, my friends!
Website: https://www.jeschleicher.com/
Blog: https://www.jeschleicher.com/dopaminesdelight
V40: Q1 3rd Place Winner ("Squiddy")
V39: SHM, HM, HM, HM
V38: HM, SHM, HM, HM
V37: R, R, HM, HM
V36: R
@jeschleicher YES! Was this the story I've seen? I knew you had success in your future when I read it, either with it or any other words you put together on a page. So so psyched for you.
VOL 40 2nd Quarter: Third Place ("Ashes to Ashes, Blood to Carbonfiber")
Past submissions: R - HM - HM - HM - HM - HM - SHM - SHM
www.jd-writes.com
Kindle Vella - Ashes to Ashes, Earth to Kaybee
& congrats on your SHM, @ease! You're knocking on success's door, too!
Website: https://www.jeschleicher.com/
Blog: https://www.jeschleicher.com/dopaminesdelight
V40: Q1 3rd Place Winner ("Squiddy")
V39: SHM, HM, HM, HM
V38: HM, SHM, HM, HM
V37: R, R, HM, HM
V36: R
@jeschleicher congratulations!!!!!!!!!!
V39 - Q2 HM, Q3 SHM, Q4 HM
V40 - Q1 SHM, Q2 HM. Q3 SHM Q4 HM
V41 - Q1 Crafting
@jeschleicher Congrats
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."~ Henry Ford
2025 V42: RWC, WIP, ?, ?
2024 V41: RWC (Resubmitted "HM"), HM, RWC, Finalist (RWC Resubmit)
2023 V40: HM, HM, R, HM
2022 V39: SHM, HM, Semi-finalist, HM (HM Resubmit)
2021 V38: ---HM (R Resubmit)
2020 V37: -R--
So.....
Boy-howdy does it feel good to use that emoji!
Not gonna lie. It's hard to function as a human as I wait for that second call. I got much to say, many thanks to give to this community. For now, I'll save that for another post cuz my head's a big ol' mush of emotions. The twitch is strong, my friends!
That's fantastic! And it's nice to have a chance to cheer you on, I've missed being able to root for the forum's Finalists each quarter recently--consider my fingers well and truly crossed for you to cross that threshold from Finalist to Winner!
DQ:0 / R:0 / RWC:1 / HM:15 / SHM:7 / SF:1 / F:1
Published prior WotF entries: PodCastle, HFQ, Abyss & Apex
Pending: Q2.V42
So.....
Boy-howdy does it feel good to use that emoji!
Not gonna lie. It's hard to function as a human as I wait for that second call. I got much to say, many thanks to give to this community. For now, I'll save that for another post cuz my head's a big ol' mush of emotions. The twitch is strong, my friends!
Congratulations to you!!! Yay! ❤️?
I made HM so I’m happy. It’s improvement from my first entry last quarter.
Congratulations to everyone! ?
~ I honestly believe that good stories write themselves. You can always start writing a story, but the characters tell their own tales and if you're lucky enough, you get to merely be in the audience watching everything unfold. ~ 8/1/2022
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WotF - 2022, V39 Q4: R
WotF - 2022/2023, V40 Q1: HM; Q2: HM; Q3: HM; Q4:HM
WoTF - 2025, V42 Q1: R
Thursday has arrived in my inbox. ?
It was my first entry so I'm curious to see if "your story did not place" means R, or just not one of the finalists.
This was what I received too for my first entry. Funny thing was, I loved the story very much. But in hindsight, since it’s been eight months later, I can now see a bit of the changes I need to make and such. I understand now why it was rejected.
Don’t give up. Your next one could be an honorable mention or even higher. We don’t know what height we can soar if we only think that being off the ground means we’re flying. Nope. Let’s continue going up and reach beyond the stars!
Good luck to your next entry! May it place so you can also get a certificate. ?
~ I honestly believe that good stories write themselves. You can always start writing a story, but the characters tell their own tales and if you're lucky enough, you get to merely be in the audience watching everything unfold. ~ 8/1/2022
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WotF - 2022, V39 Q4: R
WotF - 2022/2023, V40 Q1: HM; Q2: HM; Q3: HM; Q4:HM
WoTF - 2025, V42 Q1: R
I woke up this afternoon (I work nights) and my wife brought me coffee as well as news that the emails were starting to arrive. I felt a thunderstrike of that curious and now familiar mix of excitement-laced dread. My last couple entries were straight R's, so I was bracing for the worst; Doing my best to hold the head high, chin-up-and-carry-on sort of thing.
Dreading another R, hoping an HM, yearning for an SHM, and aching for something beyond.
This time, it seems, it was to be a beyond!
It's a good thing I work nights, because I don't think I'd be sleeping at all tonight!
Congratulations! ??
~ I honestly believe that good stories write themselves. You can always start writing a story, but the characters tell their own tales and if you're lucky enough, you get to merely be in the audience watching everything unfold. ~ 8/1/2022
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WotF - 2022, V39 Q4: R
WotF - 2022/2023, V40 Q1: HM; Q2: HM; Q3: HM; Q4:HM
WoTF - 2025, V42 Q1: R
@annax Thanks for the encouragement. They won't get rid of me that easily -- I'm already in for Q2! ?
@jeschleicher congratulations!
3rd Place Vol 41 Q3 ("The Stench of Freedom")
Submission record: R x 2 / HM x 7 / SHM x 2 / W x 1
Stories published in Daily Science Fiction, Every Day Fiction, 365tomorrows, and Gwyllion Magazine.
Find out more on my website (www.joelcscoberg.com) or sign up to my newsletter for updates on my writing journey.
Congratulations to everyone who placed, and to those who finished a story and submitted. Most of us have, or will, get Rs or RWCs, it's part of the journey, though it doesn't mean it isn't disappointing. Chin up, bum on seat, and start writing the next story.
3rd Place Vol 41 Q3 ("The Stench of Freedom")
Submission record: R x 2 / HM x 7 / SHM x 2 / W x 1
Stories published in Daily Science Fiction, Every Day Fiction, 365tomorrows, and Gwyllion Magazine.
Find out more on my website (www.joelcscoberg.com) or sign up to my newsletter for updates on my writing journey.
Meh, good, great, and awesome news all!
Thoroughly enjoyed reading through all the posts this morning and seeing results. And yes, now the weight begins Mr. Spud.
More weight!
Career: 1x Win -- 2x NW-F -- 2x S-F -- 9x S-HM -- 11x HM -- 7x R
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@jeschleicher Congratulations!! I hope you win!
V39: - - - HM
V40: SHM, HM, SHM, HM
V41: HM, SHM, SHM, F
V42: DQ, WIP
Stories published in Triangulation, Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, and others.
https://kzrichards.com
Wow-@MountainSpud (Finalist!) - Wow @cedars (S-F!) - and Wow for all the SHM's (so many!) and HM's - and Wow for all who had the guts to enter!! Well done.
And @MountainSpud, my wait between phone calls was 10 days...so try not to chew/twitch off fingernails if wait goes beyond a week. Will keep all fingers and toes crossed for you!!
Applause for everyone!! 
Elaine Midcoh
Winner - WotF v. 39. ("A Trickle in History")
Published Finalist - WotF v. 37 ("The Battle of Donasi")
2 SHM's / a few HM's / some R's
2022 Jim Baen Memorial Short Story Award ("Man on the Moon" - reprinted in "Escape Pod" magazine, June 2023 - read/listen for free at Escape Pod 895: Man on the Moon )
More sci-fi stories published in magazines MetaStellar, Galaxy's Edge, Daily Science Fiction and in anthology, "Compelling Science Fiction Short Stories" (Flame Tree Press-Oct. 2022)
ELAINE MIDCOH – Sci-Fi Author & Short Story Writer (wordpress.com)
Boy-howdy does it feel good to use that emoji!
Huge congratulations, MountainSpud! Something we all aspire to!
For me, I took a previous HM and reworked it, using lots of advice. And it improved to ... HM again. Makes me go hmmm. That's five HMs, and I'd been hoping for improvement. On the other hand, I also know that HM means each of those stories was in the top 10-15% of thousands of entries. That feels pretty good.
Write so long as words keep flowing...
http://www.DocHonourBooks.com
FWA RPLA: 2021:Fx2; 2022:1st place Gold, 2023: 1st place Gold novel
V38 HMx2; V39 HMx2, RWC, DQ (oops)
V40 SF(!), HM; RWCx2; V41 HM, RWCx2, DQ (what, again!)
V42 Q1:R
Honorable mention for me.
F x1
SHM x4
HM x11
RWC x1
R Dozens
WooHoo!!!
Congrats, Donovan! SF is exciting. You get feedback.
Spud!!! My fingers are crossed, too!
I can't imagine the wait!
And I see so many HM and SHM!
So exciting!
I got the new RWC.
So onward to Q2.
~ J V Ashley
Congratulations! Fingers and toes crossed for you.
Write without fear.
Edit without mercy.
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V38 1Q NA 2Q SHM 3Q R 4Q HM
V39 1Q NA 2Q SHM 3Q HM 4Q RWC
V40 1Q SHM 2Q SHM 3Q SHM 4Q HM
V41 1Q TBD
RWC for me. Not the result I was hoping for, obviously.
I noticed a new way to be rejected in their list I hadn't seen before: Reality check: Your plot or character behavior is wildly implausible, so much that it stopped us dead. This doesn’t mean that magic can’t exist. It means that a character in danger of losing his life isn’t going to philosophize about unrelated subjects for sixteen pages. Is the reward for fulfilling the quest ridiculously small or entirely pointless? Characters don’t work against their own self-interest. Even self-sacrifice fulfills some inner need. Look at your plot from the point of view of a stranger. Would a reasonable being act that way?
Anyway, commiserations to my fellow RWCs + Rs + DQs. It sucks. As for me, I'll get back on the horse after I lick my wounds and rethink my magic systems.
Congrats to the HMs, the SHMs, the SFs [I see at least 2 of these posting in the forum and/or elsewhere], and of course the finalists who are anxiously waiting on that second call [at least 1 posted on the forum]... may your second call be what you hope for! but if not, you should be proud of your result as you are on your way to either winning or pro-ing out [or both].
WOTF results:
Vol 42: Q1 SHM, Q2 pending, Q3 ?
running totals to date:
WOTF: 6 Rs, 3 RWCs, 8 HMs, 1 SHM
IOTF: 4 Rs, 3 HMs
Check out my new website: https://www.amyrwethingtonwriterofspeculativeworlds.com/
According to Winston Churchill, "success is going from failure to failure with enthusiasm"
Somehow I lost my Guthington profile, but it's me. Amy Wethington = Guthington = Physa
(@jeschleicher) I'm hoping for the best for you MountainSpud.
Great job everyone for submitting your work. This forum rocks. 
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality-D.R.Sweeney
HM x5
Published Poetry
2012 Stars in Our Hearts
Silver Ships
Rooting for you! Got to have at least one regular forumite up on the podium!
(7) HM, (2) SHM
I've missed being able to root for the forum's Finalists each quarter recently-
Thank You!! & I asked Joni when she called (Friday) about any gag order, and she said not to tell anyone beforehand to keep her from being inundated with a flood of emails on their results, an understandable request given the tireless work she does to make this contest shine the way it does.
Website: https://www.jeschleicher.com/
Blog: https://www.jeschleicher.com/dopaminesdelight
V40: Q1 3rd Place Winner ("Squiddy")
V39: SHM, HM, HM, HM
V38: HM, SHM, HM, HM
V37: R, R, HM, HM
V36: R
@writhmic Congratulations!!!
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
@doctorjest Congrats! That's a positive result, keep going!
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
@chwalter I know how that feels, but I'm sure you will keep writing - and then you'll get those HM, SHM, finalist, and eventually a win, there's no telling what will happen if you don't quit.
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
@jeschleicher Awesome! Congratulations, and best of luck! Feels good eh? Endorphins are flowing.
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
Loving all the positive energy in this thread. Well done everyone - keep writing 
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
