Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29

Yikes, the list of us who are still in is pretty long. Not quite enough semi and finalists spots to go around. Looks like some of us are going to have to settle for an HM.
It's like musical chairs....has the music stopped yet?
Preston
(HM x 2)

I haven't heard yet either:

Tina (gower21)
Corbin
Francis Bruno
Amanda McCarter
Martin Shoemaker
Izanobu
Grayson
Marina
Kary
Dustin
Jennifer Hicks
Justin Key (medicalauthor)
Alex Kane
anarresti
permanentnovice
joshpotter
hazlett
george.nik
The Happy Snappy Gator
welldesigned
bwthomson
greenroom
Isto
Morshana
Preston

Thought I'd add in the rest of the us who responded, but didn't add our names to the list.

Think you missed a few.

I'm still in too! At least as of Tuesday, 6:07 pacific.
Preston Dennett
(HM x2)

Tina (gower21)
Corbin
Francis Bruno
Amanda McCarter
Martin Shoemaker
Izanobu
Grayson
Marina
Kary
Dustin
Jennifer Hicks
Justin Key (medicalauthor)
Alex Kane
anarresti
permanentnovice
joshpotter
hazlett
george.nik
The Happy Snappy Gator
welldesigned
bwthomson
greenroom
Isto
Preston

Alas, our fair Morshana was taken out in last week's volley. She will fight again another day! (list edited)

23 of us. Anyone else? It's interesting to have a count. This plus the folks who have already heard (12 of them?) and we have a rough estimate of how many of us submit in a given quarter.

Then we can tally how many of us get HMs and up, derive a percentage of forum submitters who get awards, the percentage of awards taken by forum members, etc. (yes, I have a slight stats fetish)

Tina (gower21)
Corbin
Francis Bruno
Amanda McCarter
Martin Shoemaker
Izanobu
Grayson
Marina
Kary
Dustin
Jennifer Hicks
Justin Key (medicalauthor)
Alex Kane
anarresti
permanentnovice
joshpotter
hazlett
george.nik
The Happy Snappy Gator
welldesigned
bwthomson
greenroom
Isto
Morshana
Preston
Patrick S. McGinnity

Just added myself at the bottom, though I fear doing so may well jinx me.

It's getting pretty late. Looks like we won't be seeing any results tonight.

And now, back to my Q2 revisions.

I'm still in too.

Tina (gower21)
Corbin
Francis Bruno
Amanda McCarter
Martin Shoemaker
Izanobu
Grayson
Marina
Kary
Dustin
Jennifer Hicks
Justin Key (medicalauthor)
Alex Kane
anarresti
permanentnovice
joshpotter
hazlett
george.nik
The Happy Snappy Gator
welldesigned
bwthomson
greenroom
Isto
Morshana
Preston
Patrick S. McGinnity
Serrain

And yep, back to editing... I have 3 things to finish editing before Friday. >.>

I'm still in too at the moment if you want to make the list just a little longer. I think today is day 88 or 89 for me, so I'm due to be taken out today.

Tick Tock.
The wait is killing me.
Time to polish my Q2.

I'm still in the running, though my attempts at distracting myself are failing.

No sign of a Q2 entry, either. I probably should divine something up. . .

Rejections are showing up on Duotrope...

Running to Duotrope to see how many have joined me in reject hell!

Here we go...

As far as I know, I'm still in.

WOTF Duotropery may have crashed the site again (Duotrope, that is). At least I'm currently unable to get it to load. There is something ironic there, but I'm too distracted to suss it out right now.

Works for me. Only two 'R''s posted.

Say it with me now: I will not refresh Duotrope. I will not refresh Duotrope. ...

INCOMING!!!!

Sticking with the warfare metaphor:

Not being able to even load Duotrope right now is frustrating in the same way that not being able to get an umbrella to deploy properly during a mortar attack would be.

I took a direct hit.

Sorry to hear it, Tom.

In other news, my umbrella is up, for what it's worth. It was the last free one in the bucket at my dentist's office, and it has a big target on it. I feel pretty safe.

I took a direct hit.

You got an R?

It's not Duotrope I'm having trouble loading, it's this forum! Not surprising perhaps considering the number of you guys I can see online.

Gator hears the terrifying sound of gunfire in the distance. She starts to dig.
"We needs a bigger trench," she declares. "We needs to climb in it."
Icky swamp mud flies everywhere, great gobs excavated with her sticky claws float downstream as her underwater lair grows ever deeper .

Commiserations Tom. Just saw your post on the preview screen...

It's not Duotrope I'm having trouble loading, it's this forum! Not surprising perhaps considering the number of you guys I can see online.

The foxhole is getting crowded. If we take any fire now, it is going to get messy in a hurry.

I just had an e-mail show up, felt my pulse shoot up, but it was just a Critters critique coming in. Pshew!

I took a direct hit.

You got an R?

Yup.

Ommmmmm... Ommmmmm... Ommmmmm... Ommmmmm... Ommmmmm...

Ommmmmm... Ommmmmm... Ommmmmm... Ommmmmm... Ommmmmm...

Dig! Dig! Dig!

First rejection from Dec 31st submission just popped up on Duotrope.

And imagine, I have an OChem exam in 25 minutes and this is what I'm doing, haha

Good luck on both, but you might want to study a bit. We'll hold the fort.

As an aside, I submitted on the 31st, as usual, so my R should be coming in any minute. Wait, what's that high pitched whistling sound?! (Ducking and covering beneath umbrella)

Oh, just the water I was boiling for tea.

Just to take our minds off this current wave of doom, I have a question some of you may be able to help me with.
I'm tweaking a possible Q2 entry. It has two vital but discrete sex scenes, in one of which I do, just once, use the word "p***s." (Ho hum - I feel so dumb blanking it out, but I suppose I should.) Do you think that is acceptable? I also have the word "screwing." Allowed? I think so, but the story is probably not for under 12's. It also is 1st person in a non-human POV. Any thoughts on that? Has KD mentioned any preferences in that dept?

Thanks chaps and chapesses. Back to manning the towers.

After a year of this, I have decided... It is time to share a secret I have kept hidden from you all for all these many months... But today is a day when you need it most... And so at last, I will share my secret... But I will obscure it, so that those who cling to other approaches will not be disturbed by my secret... While others can read it, and be comforted...

For I can now tell you: I have the secret, the all-important pattern for deciphering and predicting WotF results and timing... And here it is...

There is no pattern...

Ommmmm... Ommmmm... Ommmmm... Ommmmm... Ommmmm...