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Pizza-cake.
Have fun.
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Finally! I didn't think I'd make it this time. The story I worked on for weeks wasn't coming together. On Monday I decided to ditch it and start a new story. A few times I almost gave up, but I glad I didn't. I really like this one. I read the first five pages to my critique group last night, but that's the only feedback I got on it. Fingers and toes crossed. Good luck everyone.
If you're still working, keep going. There's still time.
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
Straggler? Okay, perhaps. But it's in now, with five hours to spare. And it's my bedtime here in EDT.
Interestingly, I was doing some edits to comments from my local f2f group. Good writers, good people. I had taken a different approach on this story, trying to match some of the aspects that I see in WotF published winners, style issues I don't usually use. Go with the winners, right? So two of the readers in my local group thought those new aspects shouldn't be in the story at all. (Others of my readers loved them.) Hence the subjectivity of ANY review!
Write so long as words keep flowing...
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WotF: 16 submissions, every quarter since V38
SFx1; HMx7; RWCx5
FWA RPLA: 1st place Gold story (2022); 1st place Gold novel (2023)
I'll submit it somewhere else come October.
October? Optimist!
I did my research. That's when the last several Q3 results have been released.
Or do you mean dqs and stuff come out earlier? I didn't know that was the case. People don't tend to post those in the forum.
V40, Q3-4: HM, RWC
V41: in progress
Stragglers? Who's a straggler? What, just because I'm still editing/improving my story on the last day? This is sort of like merging on the highway prior to a lane closure. No need to merge until you get to the orange cones, right?
This is how I usually do it, Doc.
~ J V Ashley
So... my wife and I had our first baby in April, and I just haven't had time to finish my story for the quarter... the baby is wonderful, but ye gods, fatherhood has devoured by time to sit at the keyboard.
I do however have a prior honorable mention story that I've changed the ending of based on feedback.
I'm hazy, how much does a story need to change to be resubmitted? It didn't make finalist, so it's still good there.
(2020) V37 Q2 - Honorable Mention
(2021) V38 Q1 - Honorable Mention
(2021) V38 Q4 - Honorable Mention
(2022) V39 Q1 - Finalist
So... my wife and I had our first baby in April, and I just haven't had time to finish my story for the quarter... the baby is wonderful, but ye gods, fatherhood has devoured by time to sit at the keyboard.I do however have a prior honorable mention story that I've changed the ending of based on feedback.
I'm hazy, how much does a story need to change to be resubmitted? It didn't make finalist, so it's still good there.
It doesn't need to be changed at all--Joni has even spoken about people submitting unchanged prior entries at times, so it's not just acceptable, it's encouraged rather than not submitting. And sometimes, a changed ending may be enough to dramatically change the story's impact, so it's worth a try--get in before the window closes!
DQ:0 / R:0 / RWC:2 / HM:15 / SHM:7 / SF:1 / F:1
Pending: Q3.V42
So... my wife and I had our first baby in April, and I just haven't had time to finish my story for the quarter... the baby is wonderful, but ye gods, fatherhood has devoured by time to sit at the keyboard.
I do however have a prior honorable mention story that I've changed the ending of based on feedback.
I'm hazy, how much does a story need to change to be resubmitted? It didn't make finalist, so it's still good there.
Here is another post from Kary English, our first reader. You might scan through some of the points that could help, specifically the section on RWC (Rejected With Comments).
I'm in! I really thought I wouldn't make it this quarter but the God of Flow States must have been on my side since I wrote more than half the story today alone. Now it's twitching time.
V39: -- / SHM / SHM / RWC
V40: HM / SHM / SHM / SHM
V41: RWC / HM / SHM / --
V42: -- / P / WIP
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Thanks guys - got it in!
I remember being told my unselected finalist story can't be resubmitted, but happy my honorable mentions can help make sure I get something entered while I polish this story for the next quarter!
(2020) V37 Q2 - Honorable Mention
(2021) V38 Q1 - Honorable Mention
(2021) V38 Q4 - Honorable Mention
(2022) V39 Q1 - Finalist
Ok, I'm in with two minutes to spare. I kept falling asleep so the last bit may have a few typos and mispellings and stuff. I like the story though. Good luck everyone!
I'm in! I really thought I wouldn't make it this quarter but the God of Flow States must have been on my side since I wrote more than half the story today alone. Now it's twitching time.
Way too early to start twitching. I'd be a mass of twitches by the time another three months passed. I can just imagine it, nothing left of me but a 200-pound pile of biological bits squirming, squeaking, and jittering around on the floor. Uck.
Write so long as words keep flowing...
http://www.DocHonourBooks.com
WotF: 16 submissions, every quarter since V38
SFx1; HMx7; RWCx5
FWA RPLA: 1st place Gold story (2022); 1st place Gold novel (2023)
Got my story in for Q3 with 2 hours to spare. My original story I targeted wasn't ready, but this was a related one. The flow was good, strong tension, I just hope they like it.
V39 Q4 - HM
V40 Q1 - SHM, Q2-HM. Q3-RWC Q4-RWC
V41 Q1-RWC, Q2-HM, Q3-P
Way too early to start twitching.
Meant for Q2 results 
V39: -- / SHM / SHM / RWC
V40: HM / SHM / SHM / SHM
V41: RWC / HM / SHM / --
V42: -- / P / WIP
A labor of love: www.starspunlit.org
@wilsontd I had the same problem. I decided my first story was awful, so started a 2nd one. Then I decided the second story was awful too. I went back to the first story and it wasn't as bad as I thought, so I finished it. The 2nd one isn't that bad either, so I will finish that for the next quarter. I have a percolation issue. I always think whatever I'm writing is awful, but then after percolating, it doesn't look that bad and I can finish.
~~ Pegeen ~~
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Writer
Several entries...not keeping track.
Writing 8,000 words on deadline day is, really, quite exhilarating!
Best wishes to all. I am now in brownies & brandy mode...
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"It doesn't sell but it's mine!" George Peppard in The Subterraneans (1960)
V38 Q3 SHM
V38 Q4 SHM
V39 Q1 RWC (same story as V38Q3)
V39 Q2 HM (same story as V38Q4)
V39 Q3 RWC
V39 Q4 This one is going to win! Trust me! It's amazing! - Ok, so it only got an SHM. Poodoo! It was a brilliant YA story!!!
V40 Q1 SHM; will these torments never end?!! It was a great story!
V40 Q2 SHM Now this is getting silly. I write a definite YA winning story and it only gets SHM. Perhaps I should edit my online history...
V40 Q3 I'm guessing either SHM or RWC...
Have decided am going for the record number of RWCs! 2 out of 3 so far...
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~~ Pegeen ~~
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Writer
Several entries...not keeping track.
@undreamedages Welcome!!!! Regardless of how you place, you may have come for the opportunity, but you'll stay for the community. I haven't met such a fantastic supportive group of writers anywhere else on the innet, and my writing has improved leaps and bounds by what I've learned here. Best of luck with your sub!!
V39 - Q2 HM, Q3 SHM, Q4 HM
V40 - Q1 SHM, Q2 HM. Q3 SHM Q4 HM
V41 - Q1 Crafting
@sandy My first SHM was a story I wrote 48 hours before the deadline. I swear there's such thing as over editing and over thinking it. I wouldn't be surprised if you end up in the finals haha!
V39 - Q2 HM, Q3 SHM, Q4 HM
V40 - Q1 SHM, Q2 HM. Q3 SHM Q4 HM
V41 - Q1 Crafting
Tomorrow is Thursday, but I'm guessing it's too soon to hope for results back yet on Q3...? LOL October probably, which is a very long row to hoe.
HM for Q2, but I liked my Q3 story more, so I'm hoping for, I dunno, at least Silver maybe. I don't have one of those yet, so it would be cool to add to my collection. Then again, as much as I liked my Q3, I'm even more excited now for my current WIP for Q4.
I don't know what gets me more jazzed — waiting to hear results from the prior quarter, or waiting to submit for the next quarter. I'm always thinking, "Yeah, but wait til she sees THIS one!"
"There are three rules to writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
— W. Somerset Maugham
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SFx1
HMx6
R/RWCx6
I liked my Q2 story better than my Q3 story. My Q2 story only rose as high as HM, so... My goal is to put everything I can into writing the best story possible for Q4.
WOTF results:
Vol 42: Q1 SHM, Q2 SHM, Q3 P, Q4 ?
running totals to date:
WOTF: 6 Rs, 3 RWCs, 8 HMs, 2 SHMs
IOTF: 4 Rs, 3 HMs
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I dunno, at least Silver maybe. I don't have one of those yet, so it would be cool to add to my collection.
I'm in the same boat Morgan. My goal is to place higher than HM. I feel really good about the story I'm working on at this time.
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@physa I liked *my* Q2 better than my Q3 too! I also had thought my Q2 was more WotF appropriate so likely that means my Q3 will sink 🙁 Ho hum. All I can say was the Q3 was polished/edited better, and whatever it gets, it gets - I don't think there's much I could/would imagine to change my current Q3 as a re-sub later, so if it's doa at WotF this quarter it will get sent to other markets not resubmitted to wotf. Trying hard to focus on Q4...
"...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: SHM Q3: P 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: 82 submitted 4 acceptances
2024: 53 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
Tomorrow is Thursday, but I'm guessing it's too soon to hope for results back yet on Q3...? LOL October probably, which is a very long row to hoe.
I've got five Q3 results recorded for myself, and 3 of those fall in the span of a week, from the last few days of September to the first handful of October. So that doesn't seem like too long a shot...
DQ:0 / R:0 / RWC:2 / HM:15 / SHM:7 / SF:1 / F:1
Pending: Q3.V42
So, do all the notifications come out at the end? Or do they come out in batches? For example, do a lot of Rs and RWCs come out early?
V40, Q3-4: HM, RWC
V41: in progress
@undreamedages When I've gotten Rs or RWCs they've come out at the same time other folks were rating higher.
V38: HM, R, R, HM
V39: RWC, HM, RWC, HM
V40: RWC, HM, SHM, R
V41: R, RWC, R, R
V42: RWC, RWC, WIP
There was a time when Rs might come out early. After they revamped the system a few years back, Rs now come out the same time as everything else.
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3rd Place Q1 V31
"Today I Am Paul", WSFA Small Press Award 2015, Nebula nomination 2015
Today I Am Carey from Baen
The Last Dance (#1 science fiction eBook on Amazon, October 2019) and The Last Campaign from 47North
