Write One, Sub One

Good luck, Facing, and thank you -- though I think it's been a while since I was featured on Lightspeed.

Is there a place where all the short stories in the current contest are brought together? I'm going to take a look at at least some of them.
 
Matthew Hughes said:
Good luck, Facing, and thank you -- though I think it's been a while since I was featured on Lightspeed.
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Perhaps featured was the wrong word. You get a gold star for "author spotlight" which is seriously cool. :)
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Is there a place where all the short stories in the current contest are brought together? I'm going to take a look at at least some of them.
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Every time a contest closes, a voting thread is posted. It sometimes takes a couple of days for us to get a moderator to pin those posts but the current ones can be found below. Within the voting threads, links to the eligible stories are all conveniently gathered in the first post.

The flash contests usually close around the 23rd to give time for reading and voting before the end of the month. Links to the voting threads are below.
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The Short Story contests cover two months to give writers more time to write these longer stories. They typically close at the end of a month. The current one is for May/June and closes on the thirtieth. It currently only has two entries but more will likely show up in the last few days as people complete their final editing passes. You can access those two stories here and here.

The novelette/novella contest is brand new. This is only our third kick at the can and it runs from June to November so the voting for that won't go up for long while. It does have one entry at this point but a number of us will be attempting to draft our novelettes/novella during next months NaNoWriMo Camp. I suspect there will be at least a dozen entries by the end of November.
 
I just finished the final edits on Properly Born and went to send it off to IGMS only to find out I have to give them my email address and await instructions. :rolleyes:
It only took about five minutes but, it's late. It was a long five minutes.
 
"Punctuated Equilibrium" back from Nanofiction 0/1
....guess they don't appreciate good squirrel fiction. :(
 
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"The Banana" back from Microfiction Monday Magazine 0/1
"Traders" back from Microfiction Monday Magazine 0/4
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"Entropy Explained" ACCEPTED at Microfiction Monday Magazine! 1/2
it will be published in the July 4th issue. This will be my third appearance there.
 
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kennychaffin said:
"The Banana" back from Microfiction Monday Magazine 0/1
"Traders" back from Microfiction Monday Magazine 0/4
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"Entropy Explained" ACCEPTED at Microfiction Monday Magazine! 1/2
it will be published in the July 4th issue. This will be my third appearance there.
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Woohoo! Your perseverance pays off. :cool: Congratulations.
 
"Manna from Heaven" back from Asimov's 0/3
and I got the dreaded (Please use 'proper' MS format) -- which I did.

<whining>Perhaps it was not double spaced....I don't keep individual copies or each submission -- but if so that's just way too niggly for an electronic submission. Anyway that sort of thing really gets my dander up. Plus the turn-around time compared to many of the other mags. </whining>

...And off to Lightspeed (who prefer standard MS format but WITH SINGLE SPACING) for hopefully a speedier response. :)
 
kennychaffin said:
"Manna from Heaven" back from Asimov's 0/3
and I got the dreaded (Please use 'proper' MS format) -- which I did.

<whining>Perhaps it was not double spaced....I don't keep individual copies or each submission --
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It only takes a few minutes to "save as" and give them what they want. Don't your stories deserve to be served up in the most appetizing way possible? Why not take the time? You do have it, don't you?
 
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It only takes a few minutes to "save as" and give them what they want. Don't your stories deserve to be served up in the most appetizing way possible? Why not take the time? You do have it, don't you?
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I did. I have no idea what they are whining about. I'm only guessing it was single vs double spacing. And that's BS when you are talking about a electronic document in a format they require (.doc).

I've ranted about this before as you may know (in this thread as a matter of fact if you want a blast from the past: http://www.sffworld.com/forum/threads/write-one-sub-one.40240/page-21#post-755762 :)). So I'm not going to do it again other than to say that each mag seems to have their own idiosyncratic bs which is mostly just that, bs. Do they want to publish and sell good fiction or do they want to be grammar and formatting teachers.

My point is that if the MS is in a reasonable, readable format that's good enough, particularly for electronic submissions in a specified format.
 
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I did. I have no idea what they are whining about.
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Either you took the time to follow their very specific guidelines, regardless of what you think of those guidelines.
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I'm only guessing it was single vs double spacing. And that's BS when you are talking about a electronic document in a format they require (.doc).
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Or, you thumbed your nose at the guidelines in favour of riding a skinny horse just to prove you could. Love you, but you can't have it both ways.
 
Facing said:
Either you took the time to follow their very specific guidelines, regardless of what you think of those guidelines.

Or, you thumbed your nose at the guidelines in favour of riding a skinny horse just to prove you could. Love you, but you can't have it both ways.
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I told exactly my position. Please reread if necessary. o_O
 
"Man Boobs" 0/1 back from Smokelong Quarterly.

currently 8 pieces out there in the wild....

I've been kindof letting them come back to roost for a variety of reasons....one is that some I need send some of them to markets where others currently are waiting on responses, the other is that I'm looking at putting together my new collection this month and I just may use them there. :D
 
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I got a book I'd seen recommended on a blog from the library today. I'd put it on reserve and it popped up today and I've been skimming through it. It's one of those rah-rah inspirational books that I don't typically read (other than Stephen King's On Writing now and then again) It is from Elizabeth Gilbert (the Eat, Pray, Love) writer and is called "Big Magic" I got a kick just now out of the chapter on "Permission." I was reading it just after getting the above rejection.

"I sent my work out to publications, and I collected rejection letters in return. I kept up with my writing, despite the rejections. I labored over my short stories alone in my bedroom—and also in train stations, in stairwells, in libraries, in public parks, and in the apartments of various friends, boyfriends, and relatives. I sent more and more work out. I was rejected, rejected, rejected, rejected.

I disliked the rejection letters. Who wouldn’t? But I took the long view: My intention was to spend my entire life in communion with writing, period. (And people in my family live forever—I have a grandmother who’s one hundred and two!—so I figured my twenties was too soon to start panicking about time running out.) That being the case, editors could reject me all they wanted; I wasn’t going anywhere. Whenever I got those rejection letters, then, I would permit my ego to say aloud to whoever had signed it: “You think you can scare me off? I’ve got another eighty years to wear you down! There are people who haven’t even been born yet who are gonna reject me someday—that’s how long I plan to stick around.”

:D
 
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