Discussion: Q4 Volume 37

I'm in! I feel a bit mentally exhausted. Good luck to all of us.

Submitted!

I'm in! I feel a bit mentally exhausted. Good luck to all of us.

Same here. I was up till five last night revising. It was exhilarating, really. Even though most of it wasn't new, I was working on it straight from 11:00 to 4:50. It's the first time I did something near that.

I'm in for this quarter. Best of luck to all that are in.

Well done to all those getting their stories submitted. It's not over yet! There's still time to get them in, Forumites! You can't win if you aren't in!

Here's to a great showing for the Forum in Q4! Three more winners!

All the beast!

Wulf Moon
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I'm in!

Congratulations to everyone who subbed. Regardless of results, submitting our stories is an act of courage. Be proud!

And if you didn't, don't be too hard on yourself. Even in normal years, real life takes precedence and this ain't no normal year. Just keep swimming!

Thanks to crits from Dustin Adams & RSchibler, I'm In!

Sorry, I've been missing in action. I'm trying to finish a novel manuscript and had to cut side activities like perusing the forums, but I've missed all of you. Good Luck everyone!

Well I've submitted. Now to get cracking on Q1 for volume 38.

Just submitted. Almost missed this quarter!

And I'm sliding IN under the barbed wire as usual....

I got in just under the wire! Shoutout to RSchibler for providing a last-minute critique and giving me some good stuff to think about during my final revisions. I'd like to think I could squeeze an HM out of this story, but I look forward to the R anyway. Regardless, I'm proud to have finished it at all during such an unusually busy month for me. It's been motivating to read about the effort all of you have been making, too.
I think my goal for next quarter is to submit early--pushing it until the last minute is stressful, haha! Now, to get some sleep.

Jesus christ, that was nerve wracking. I've been meaning to send in a story for a while now, but other important matters (videogames) prevented that. And it took me an all nighter and then some to realize last night that the story I was writing was definitely NOT going to be finished on time.

So I started afresh this morning with a new story. I didn't have time to reread it or run it through grammarly before sending it in at 11:59, but I think the important part is that I sent it in. My heart hasn't stopped pounding though.

And my first submission is in! At this point I don’t even mind the results. The dopamine from hitting submit will carry me through this one. Expectations can go up next volume.

Congratulations RabenWrites! Your first submission is a milestone. Keep up the good work!

Shoutout to RSchibler for providing a last-minute critique and giving me some good stuff to think about during my final revisions. I'd like to think I could squeeze an HM out of this story,

RSchibler helped me out too! Based on her insightful critique I submitted a different story than I'd planned to. Based on her help I'll probably be submitting the story she helped me with next Quarter.

Thank you very much, Rschibler!

Missed out this quarter. I am late for submitting a short story to finish a novella and I have to get this done! I wish everyone well who submitted.

BTW....when do we receive the notifications for the previous period?

Quarter 3 results should be in the next week or two. Quarter 4 results will be sometime in late November, based on previous years.

So I started afresh this morning with a new story. I didn't have time to reread it or run it through grammarly before sending it in at 11:59, but I think the important part is that I sent it in. My heart hasn't stopped pounding though.

Wow! Great job starting a fresh one and getting it subbed all in one day. That's a true Wulf Moon-style achievement there!

So I started afresh this morning with a new story. I didn't have time to reread it or run it through grammarly before sending it in at 11:59, but I think the important part is that I sent it in. My heart hasn't stopped pounding though.

I didn't have time to reread through mine either! Finished piecing it together at 11:50, and had it subbed six mins later. I thought I was probably the last submission, but no! Way to go Elessar and Pen Mark on getting it in.

Setting a goal of not submitting this late is definitely a something I would like to do..... 😉

Good luck to everyone!

Quarter 3 results should be in the next week or two. Quarter 4 results will be sometime in late November, based on previous years.

Thanks.

I didn't have time to reread through mine either! Finished piecing it together at 11:50, and had it subbed six mins later. I thought I was probably the last submission, but no! Way to go Elessar and Pen Mark on getting it in.

Setting a goal of not submitting this late is definitely a something I would like to do..... 😉

We should start an "I subbed with less than ten minutes to go" club to make it feel more intentional, haha! I think you might have actually been a couple of minutes after me--congrats on finishing your story in time, and good luck with the results, everyone!

*looks at clock*

...this is going to be a long wait.

We should start an "I subbed with less than ten minutes to go" club

Totally!

I submitted on 1st October at around 4 am. That's UK time, so around 4 hours before the deadline. I wasted the previous day preparing for and turning up for a job interview that didn't happen, which I found out after waiting for 15 minutes, so thanks to the company who did that to me!

I think my Q4 submission has my strongest internal journey of a WotF submission but is weaker in other areas. So I'm interested to see how it does.

I'll very likely be wild-camping without a phone signal when the results come out. Last year, I happened to be walking a wilderness (I didn't see another person for 5 days) when a story got to consideration at a pro-mag. That resulted in some major-twitching, though in the end I didn't hear back for another 4-5 weeks.

Against all probability, I managed to submit to last quarter, woo! For the last year or so, every time the end of a quarter was approaching I told myself, "THIS TIME I'll finish this story that I've been chewing on for forever," and every time, the deadline sailed by with my story still sitting unfinished in its dusty folder and me going, "I am an idiot."

37Q4 I fiiiiinally managed to finish my submission by going into writer lockdown for 48h and doing nothing but writing and editing and occasionally snacking and dosing until I submitted it about 30min before the deadline.

Hopefully this means I've broken my WOTF-block now On to vol 38!

Against all probability, I managed to submit to last quarter, woo! For the last year or so, every time the end of a quarter was approaching I told myself, "THIS TIME I'll finish this story that I've been chewing on for forever," and every time, the deadline sailed by with my story still sitting unfinished in its dusty folder and me going, "I am an idiot."

37Q4 I fiiiiinally managed to finish my submission by going into writer lockdown for 48h and doing nothing but writing and editing and occasionally snacking and dosing until I submitted it about 30min before the deadline.

Hopefully this means I've broken my WOTF-block now On to vol 38!

Very well done!!!! I have been in that boat occasionally. It's a hard one to jump out of. (I subbed just a couple mins before the deadline this Q....) V38 here we come!

P.S. Did you mean "dozing"? Or am I missing something....

Against all probability, I managed to submit to last quarter, woo! For the last year or so, every time the end of a quarter was approaching I told myself, "THIS TIME I'll finish this story that I've been chewing on for forever," and every time, the deadline sailed by with my story still sitting unfinished in its dusty folder and me going, "I am an idiot."

37Q4 I fiiiiinally managed to finish my submission by going into writer lockdown for 48h and doing nothing but writing and editing and occasionally snacking and dosing until I submitted it about 30min before the deadline.

Hopefully this means I've broken my WOTF-block now On to vol 38!

Congratulations on finishing and getting your story in on time! Deadlines push you to get 'er done. Best of success with it!

I once got a Q4 response on October 30th (in 2013)! But before you twitch, I've also gotten a Q4 response on January 4th (in 2011, a different judge, and the early days of online submissions), but most of them have been in November (5 of them) and a few in December (3 of them). Last year, it was near the end of November...

Fingers crossed it'll be November rather than December or later, but who knows?

*whispers* I'm way too invested in results for this quarter. This one's gonna hurt.

I once got a Q4 response on October 30th (in 2013)! But before you twitch, I've also gotten a Q4 response on January 4th (in 2011, a different judge, and the early days of online submissions), but most of them have been in November (5 of them) and a few in December (3 of them). Last year, it was near the end of November...

Beth, so let me get this straight . . . five years of Novembers and 3 years of Decembers? You've been submitting for eight or more years now? Wait. 2011 was a January. That makes it almost ten years or more.