Wait, you got... Notes?
I didn't know they GAVE notes!
Congrats on the NOTES!
@DonMarkmaker
@scott_m_sands I tried opening it on my phone and pasted the link into my browser. Definitely a roundabout way, but it worked!
V39: -- / SHM / SHM / RWC
V40: HM / SHM / SHM / SHM
V41: RWC / HM / SHM / --
V42: -- / WIP
A product of sweat and tears: www.starspunlit.org
@galen congratulations! At least two forumites to be rooting for a win 
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.
Many thanks guys! So close yet so very far.
@MountainSpud - here's hoping! Right back at ya.
Finalist x2
Semi x1
SHM x5
HM x9
R - lots!
Welcome to the forum(@rajohnson). Congratulations on the SHM. That's a cool signature.
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality-D.R.Sweeney
HM x5
Published Poetry
2012 Stars in Our Hearts
Silver Ships
I moved up to SHM in v40Q1. Gotta finish Q3's.
V40 SHM, P
V39 --, HM, HM, R
Awesome work on the SHM.
"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--
Woohoo! 
Normally I would be a little bummed because I haven't gotten anything better than an HM, but I am truly happy to get it for the story I submitted this quarter. Once again it was a rush to get in before the deadline and I kept reading it over wishing I did better. Can't wait to work on it and make it sparkly shiny <3 It makes me so happy to see so many HMs and SHMs and potential winners. Keep up the great work everyone!
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to be possible and the truth doesn't." - Mark Twain
13x HM
I sometimes like to write reading analyses and blog: Website
Moody playlists for writing: Spotify playlists
And if anyone wanted company: Read and write with me
FYI re: the comments / categories on the RWC letter - If you got an RWC, it means that what held your story back is one of the things in the letter. We don't give RWC for "yeah, this is sort of vaguely somewhere between HM and R."
We give RWC very specifically, and only if the story displayed one (or more) or the traits in the letter.
The majority of RWCs are for FTL, meaning that your opening went on too long. We're leaning hard on trying to provide feedback in the limited time we have, and sometimes we're faced with "Wow, the writing in this is really amazing, but it has 6 pages of backstory in the opening." Trim the backstory and not only could you be looking at HM or higher, you might be looking at Silver or higher.
WOTF: 1 HM, 1 Semi, 2 Finalists, 1 Winner
Q2,V31 - Winner Winner Chicken Dinner!
Hugo and Astounding finalist, made the preliminary Stoker ballot (juried)
Published by Galaxy's Edge, DSF, StarShipSofa and TorNightfire
Wow, Ease. That's quite a streak of HMs to SHMs. Looks like you're on an upward trajectory to a win! Nice.Congratulations to everyone getting a result today, regardless of the outcome! Finishing something is hard. Submitting something is even harder, and you did it!
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
40 stories published! (and counting!)
Nice! Congratulations!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!
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
40 stories published! (and counting!)
Wow, Nate. Judging by your sig, you're very close! Don't give up!
Now I gotta go update my sig.
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
40 stories published! (and counting!)
Nice! HUGE congratulations, Mountain Spud. Best of luck getting some sleep. Didn't work for me. It was a long two weeks. Fingers crossed for you. Wow!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!
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
40 stories published! (and counting!)
Way to go, Galen. Your sig awards are amazing. Fingers crossed for a win this time. Wow.Congrats everyone! Regardless of the result, the communal blood and sweat you all put into your stories is the stuff of legends.
I'd like to pile on with one more:
I'm a finalist this time.
As always, whatever the result, I remain indebted to the forumites who propped me up with their crits.
I looked it up for fun, and I think I've been at this for nine years now, but I can't be sure. It was a while before I started tracking it. Anything to distract me for the next week, I think...
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
40 stories published! (and counting!)
I've said it before and I'll say it again. This forum grows winners. Pretty much every year at least one forumite makes the cut, usually multiple. Congrats to all who entered, whether R, RWC, HM, SHM SF or the sought-after F. You can win this contest. It took me 46 tries, but I did it. You can too. Don't give up!
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
40 stories published! (and counting!)
Congratulations to all winners, be it HM, SHM, SF, F, or placed. Great job
Small steps add up to miles.
5 R, 5 RWC, 6 HM, 1 SHM
"Amore For Life" in After the Gold Rush Third Flatiron Anthology
"Freedom’s Song” in Troubadour and Space Princesses LTUE Anthology
"Experimenting with the Dance of Death" in Love is Complicated LUW Romance Anthology.
@writersaraho Congrats! 
“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
@wren That's awesome! Congrats. You never know, sometimes what you think isn't your best ends up winning - I sent my winning story thinking it'd get a HM or SHM at most, as I had nothing "better" to send that quarter. Keep writing and submitting.
“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
@lizbusby That's the spirit! Congrats on the HM
“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
"shone"
And THANKS!
According to Merriam-Webster, both "shined" and "shone" are equally correct.
"There are three rules to writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
— W. Somerset Maugham
Drop me a line at https://morganbroadhead.com
SFx1
HMx5
R/RWCx6
Huh. Weird. If it worked for you, I'll give it a try!
Thanks.
"If writing is easy, you're doing it wrong." -Bryan Hutchinson
V36-37: R x6
V38: R, HM, R, HM
V39: HM, HM, HM, HM
V40: HM, HM, SHM, HM
V41: RWC, P
Awesome work on the SHM.
Many apologies @toddjones, my mouse jumped and I hit thumbs down instead of thumbs up! I can't seem to remove my thumbs down either 
So, I'll add a 
to my intended thumbs up for good measure 
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.
Many apologies @toddjones, my mouse jumped and I hit thumbs down instead of thumbs up! I can't seem to remove my thumbs down either
So, I'll add a
haha
At least someone is reading my comments. 
"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--
Nice! HUGE congratulations, Mountain Spud. Best of luck getting some sleep. Didn't work for me. It was a long two weeks. Fingers crossed for you. Wow!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!
Thank you!!!! Btw...I love your story, A Certain Slant of Light. Hit me just right, how lovely stories do. & I often thought of your inspiring road to the gala when I've been buried in rejections, thinking maybe, just maybe, I've made an impression with an editor, just don't know it yet, so I got to keep writing, keep submitting.
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
@storysinger Thanks. I've been lurking for a while.
v40: SHM, P
v39: --, HM, HM, R
I moved up to SHM in v40Q1. Gotta finish Q3's.
V40 SHM, P
V39 --, HM, HM, R
Right on!! Congrats!
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
This forum grows winners.
An emphatic yes! & just full of wonderful, positive peeps!
It took me 46 tries
You're a beast!
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
I think Wulf was nearing that many? (46) He could remind us.
I'm a small fry at "only" 32. 
Career: 1x Win -- 2x NW-F -- 2x S-F -- 9x S-HM -- 11x HM -- 7x R
Like me: facebook/AuthorTJKnight
Many thanks guys! So close yet so very far.
@MountainSpud - here's hoping! Right back at ya.
Forgive me for the thumbs down. I was thumbing up posts on my phone and my thumb, as big as it is, hit both. ??♀️ I’ve done this twice so far on this forum so I’m sorry for my mistake.
I am happy this forum is active and has as many members as it does. As always, keep up the good work, keep writing, and don’t give up! ?
~ 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
