I'm close for Q1. Going to sleep on it and polish a little more tomorrow (or later today at this point 😜). Had to pull my Q2 forward and push my original Q1 back to Q2 because a rewrite was taking longer than planned. 
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ~Hemingway (maybe)
V41 Q2:RWC Q4:R
V42 Q1:P Q2:WIP Q3:WIP Q4:TBD
I'm close for Q1. Going to sleep on it and polish a little more tomorrow (or later today at this point 😜). Had to pull my Q2 forward and push my original Q1 back to Q2 because a rewrite was taking longer than planned.
We're here rooting for you and all the writers digging deep and trying to push it over the finish line!
Fill your coffee mugs(/herbal tea cup/beverage container!) and push for the end, its in sight now 
"...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: P 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: 1 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
I'm close for Q1. Going to sleep on it and polish a little more tomorrow (or later today at this point 😜). Had to pull my Q2 forward and push my original Q1 back to Q2 because a rewrite was taking longer than planned.
also, I love Hemingway, but that quote might not really be him!
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ~Ernest Hemingway
https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/quotation-controversy-writing-and-bleeding
Nevertheless, its one of the writing quotes I too love 
"...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: P 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: 1 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
I'm in for Q1. Here's to hoping Q2 is smoother sailing.
Happy New Year to all!
I'm in for Q1. Here's to hoping Q2 is smoother sailing.
Happy New Year to all!
congrats! Now you get to chillax and celebrate the New Year! 
"...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: P 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: 1 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
I'm in for Q1. Happy New Year.
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ~Hemingway (maybe)
V41 Q2:RWC Q4:R
V42 Q1:P Q2:WIP Q3:WIP Q4:TBD
I'm close for Q1...
also, I love Hemingway, but that quote might not really be him!
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ~Ernest Hemingway
https://www.hemingwaysociety.org/quotation-controversy-writing-and-bleeding
Nevertheless, its one of the writing quotes I too love
Hmmm. I suppose I can adjust the attribution.
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ~Hemingway (maybe)
V41 Q2:RWC Q4:R
V42 Q1:P Q2:WIP Q3:WIP Q4:TBD
I'm in for Q1. Happy New Year.
congrats. Time to celebrate and relax!
And I wouldn't fuss with the attribution - I just commented as its such a great quote and I think the history on its interesting
"...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: P 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: 1 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
In for Q1. I had a story ready to go a month ago but honestly I'd been debating whether to even submit this quarter up until an hour ago. The critical voice is a weird, berating beast. But it's back in the cage for now.
Good luck, everyone!
R x 3
HM x 5
SHM x 3
SF X 1
My isfdb page
In for Q1. I had a story ready to go a month ago but honestly I'd been debating whether to even submit this quarter up until an hour ago. The critical voice is a weird, berating beast. But it's back in the cage for now.
Good luck, everyone!
I'm happy you submitted. You never know what place your story could've gotten if you didn't actually enter.
Now, on to Q2. I say, "get to writing!" 😆
~ 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: P
I'm in for Q1. Happy New Year.
Yay! I'm happy you submitted. Fingers crossed for you!
Happy New Year to you too! 😊
~ 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: P
I'm in for Q1. Here's to hoping Q2 is smoother sailing.
Happy New Year to all!
Yay! Now, on to Q2!
Also, have a happy new year too! Thank you! 😊
~ 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: P
I'm in for Q1! As usual, I submitted on the last day, but I spent more time on this story than I have on many of my recent entries, so we'll see if that makes a difference
Beth Powers
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Silver HM x 6
HM x 21
Entries x 69
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Collected Stories:
Sorcery & Widgets
Runes & Rivets
I'm in for Q1! As usual, I submitted on the last day, but I spent more time on this story than I have on many of my recent entries, so we'll see if that makes a difference
69 entries! I kneel in awe
Fingers crossed for you!
"...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: P 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: 1 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
In for Q1. I had a story ready to go a month ago but honestly I'd been debating whether to even submit this quarter up until an hour ago. The critical voice is a weird, berating beast. But it's back in the cage for now.
Good luck, everyone!
The critical voice is indeed a weird, berating beast, and oft raises its head *after* submission too if you are anything like me good luck, both with the submission and keeping the beast tame for the coming months!
"...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: P 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: 1 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
I'm in for Q1! As usual, I submitted on the last day, but I spent more time on this story than I have on many of my recent entries, so we'll see if that makes a difference
69 entries! I kneel in awe
Fingers crossed for you!
Well, I originally put my entries in there to encourage others to not give up after a few, but I'm not sure the logic still holds after this many 
Beth Powers
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Silver HM x 6
HM x 21
Entries x 69
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Collected Stories:
Sorcery & Widgets
Runes & Rivets
I’m in for Q1. It’s not one of the stories I outlined this quarter, but that’s okay. I wrote it for WotF a long time ago then talked myself out of submitting it in favor of something else. Next quarter, I promise to finish a new story!
V39: - - - HM
V40: SHM, HM, SHM, HM
V41: HM, SHM, SHM, F
V42: P
Stories published in Triangulation, Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, and others.
https://kzrichards.com
Happy New Year everyone! 🌟💫✨ Good luck for Q1! 😃🤞
Vol 42: Q1 - P
Vol 41: Q1 - HM, Q2 - SHM, Q3 - RWC, Q4 - HM
Vol 40: Q4 - DQ
congrats everyone who made it in! Now we wait ....
"...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: P 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: 1 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
It's been a while since I've entered the contest but I'm in for 42 Q1. I submitted an old SHM I fixed up. Crossing my fingers!
- My destiny awaits! 🏆
I'm in. New story - High Fantasy - 11k words
Two weeks of outlining. Ten days of writing.
I haven't re-submitted a story in a long time. For me, it is largely due to the fact that I keep thinking up new things. There are three universes that I play in and these generate unending story ideas.
I would suggest creating a reference file for world/universe building that includes everything that differentiates that universe from RL. (For instance, my main magical universe has a huge number of rules that define and constrain magic and these things are all written out in an outline. I add definition and detail to the outline as each story tests the rules.) My reference files have drastically lowered prep time before writing.
Advantages of resubbing that I believe in:
1. Using new techniques on an older story allows the writer to practice on familiar ground.
2. Resubbing after reworking (removing extraneous elements, creating more immersive prose, increasing flow, etc.) may show tangible improvement as the story might place higher.
3. The change made to the story might be the exact change that was required.
Advantages that I don't believe in:
1. The reader was having a bad day and the next time they see the story, it will "click."
2. Reader A rejected my story but this time reader B will like it.
Best of luck to everyone who entered.
Have fun.
F x 3
Happy New Year to you all, and congratulations to everyone who submitted a story for Q1 of V. 42. You can't win it if you ain't in it!
3rd Place Q3 Vol 41
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.
I'm in. New story - High Fantasy - 11k words
Two weeks of outlining. Ten days of writing.
I haven't re-submitted a story in a long time. For me, it is largely due to the fact that I keep thinking up new things.
And also because you can't because you keep making finalist? 😉
If there is anyone on here for whom the win seems inevitable my money would be on you. Best of luck with this quarter!
There are three universes that I play in and these generate unending story ideas.
I would suggest creating a reference file for world/universe building that includes everything that differentiates that universe from RL. (For instance, my main magical universe has a huge number of rules that define and constrain magic and these things are all written out in an outline. I add definition and detail to the outline as each story tests the rules.) My reference files have drastically lowered prep time before writing.
Interesting. All my stories are unrelated. What is your long term plan for these same-world sstories? Do you submit them elsewhere or do you plan an anthology/fix-up novel sometime? Or is it just because thats whats efficient/fun for you?
Advantages of resubbing that I believe in:
1. Using new techniques on an older story allows the writer to practice on familiar ground.
2. Resubbing after reworking (removing extraneous elements, creating more immersive prose, increasing flow, etc.) may show tangible improvement as the story might place higher.
3. The change made to the story might be the exact change that was required.
Advantages that I don't believe in:
1. The reader was having a bad day and the next time they see the story, it will "click."
2. Reader A rejected my story but this time reader B will like it.
Best of luck to everyone who entered.
Have fun.
Agree 100% with this - and I'd double down on the resubbing changes probably have to be significant, not just tweaks. Thanks for these thoughts @kent always interesting to hear other people's reasoning and process whether writing or the contest.
"...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: P 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: 1 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
I have submitted most WotF entries elsewhere, though there are a few larger ones that have no market, currently. I have kicked around the idea of compiling same universe stories into an anthology, but believe that would be putting the cart before the horse (i.e. Kent has a brand new anthology! ... Who?).
One thing I'll add, ideas outside of my developed universes get written up as is, never shoehorned into a preexisting universe just to fit.
Thank you for the kind words,
Kent
F x 3
