Email List and Submission Dates

[Snakenaps she/her]

If we end up with an over-full roster, I won't take a spot this week. I want to make sure @Mandamon gets a spot, considering he has a deadline and I definitely don't.

So if we have an open spot on July 1st, I'd happily take it, but I don't expect it. 

[kais]

I had a book release this week and haven't even gotten to revisions yet from this last one with all the promo stuff. So while I'd like to sub this week, I'm fine passing, too.

[Robinski he/him]

13 hours ago, kais said:

had a book release this week

Woop, woop - congratulations!   Non-fiction?

[shatteredsmooth]

I'm just going to drop out this week and submit on June 8 instead of June 1. 

I still need to look over my chapter 1 more time before I send it, but I'm rewriting my last couple of chapters to account for changes I made earlier. I'd rather just finish this past on the last chapters before I do my final pass on 6 before submitting. 

[kais]

1 hour ago, Robinski said:

Woop, woop - congratulations!   Non-fiction?

Yup! My primer on wood in the home! fancy hardback binding and great photos. Schiffer always does a great job with full color nonfiction books! If anyone is curious, the book is here.

[Mandamon he/him]

29 minutes ago, kais said:

Yup! My primer on wood in the home! fancy hardback binding and great photos. Schiffer always does a great job with full color nonfiction books! If anyone is curious, the book is here.

Yay! Congrats!

[Silk she/her]

You're all so accommodating that I'm having trouble keeping track of who's volunteering to bow out in favour of whom! Thanks, everyone. Let's go with:

@Sarah B, @TheDwarfyOne, @Mandamon (for two slots, in consideration of the deadline) and @kais.

@shatteredsmooth and @Snakenaps, I saw you two speak up first about potentially bowing out this week so I'll take you up on that and put you on for next week (if you still want it). That good?

[shatteredsmooth]

1 hour ago, Silk said:

@shatteredsmooth and @Snakenaps, I saw you two speak up first about potentially bowing out this week so I'll take you up on that and put you on for next week (if you still want it). That good?

Yup. I'd like to go next week, June 8. 

[Snakenaps she/her]

2 hours ago, Silk said:

 

@shatteredsmooth and @Snakenaps, I saw you two speak up first about potentially bowing out this week so I'll take you up on that and put you on for next week (if you still want it). That good

Yup, sounds good to me! 

[aeromancer he/him]

If there's a slot available next Monday, I'd like to submit. If there isn't one, or if there's a crowd, I'm fine backing out - I'm not in any particular rush for this submission.

If anyone's curious, this is going to be another short story, featuring Tempter (and his human sidekick Z that no one cares about). The first story is being rewritten, but since abut 80% of the edits are focused towards the back end of the draft, I didn't feel like resubmitting basically the same first two parts, and only then springing out the rewritten third part. Similarly, just submitting the rewritten third part would have it's own problem. On the other hand, a new story will have three fresh new sections, all ripe for feedback, in my opinion, a much better value. (That said, I do estimate there's a ~10% chance that it'll never reach the third submissions for, shall we say, reasons.*) Now featuring 100% less dead witches, very minor mystery elements, and some heavy and dark themes deserved of the low fantasy setting.

*It's not something that I'm trying to make happen, but seeing as I want to try working in dark themes, if the general consensus of the community is that I'm doing it badly, then it's back to the drawing board.

[kais]

1 hour ago, aeromancer said:

Now featuring 100% less dead witches,

This made me giggle.

[aeromancer he/him]

5 hours ago, kais said:

6 hours ago, aeromancer said:

Now featuring 100% less dead witches,

This made me giggle.

I'd just like to clarify my intentions here. It's not '100%-less dead-witches', as in there will be a lack of dead witches and that lack will be equally proportionate to the number of dead witches from the first submission; I mean '100%-less-dead witches' as in the witches that are present will be 100% less dead than the witches in the first submission. The difference between the two is mostly a matter of semantics, but I do think it's important to avoid miscommunication when at all possible.

[Robinski he/him]

16 hours ago, aeromancer said:

Now featuring 100% less dead witches

LOL  

Also, 'fewer dead witches'  

[aeromancer he/him]

3 hours ago, Robinski said:

Also, 'fewer dead witches'  

14 hours ago, aeromancer said:

I'd just like to clarify my intentions here. It's not '100%-less dead-witches', as in there will be a lack of dead witches and that lack will be equally proportionate to the number of dead witches from the first submission; I mean '100%-less-dead witches' as in the witches that are present will be 100% less dead than the witches in the first submission. The difference between the two is mostly a matter of semantics, but I do think it's important to avoid miscommunication when at all possible.

No, I said what I meant and meant what I said.

 

[Robinski he/him]

2 hours ago, aeromancer said:

No, I said what I meant and meant what I said.

<sigh> It's certainly a lot clearer when I read your post properly   I retract my misdirect remark.

[Mandamon he/him]

Looks like @shatteredsmooth, @Snakenaps, and @aeromancer all wanted to go on June 8?

If I submit the next two chapters, that would round out the roster, so let me know of any problems. Ch 23 is currently 4020 words and Ch 24 is 6990, which comes up to about 11000. However, I've been consistently cutting words from each chapter, so here's hoping I'll get that under 10k and not add more...

After this, just the last chapter which is about 9100 words, and an epilogue of 3650 words.

Thanks so much for everyone helping out with speed reading/feedback on this!

[kais]

Yup. I can take the week off no problem. Let’s get you finished, @Mandamon!

[Mandamon he/him]

1 minute ago, kais said:

Yup. I can take the week off no problem. Let’s get you finished, @Mandamon!

Thanks!

[aeromancer he/him]

@kais As I said in my post, I'm perfectly content waiting an extra week to submit, so if you have something urgent, but not quite as urgent as Mandamon, you can sub in place of me instead. If you're equally fine with either one of us submitting, I'll go ahead and submit.

[Snakenaps she/her]

I'd love to go this Monday if able. 

@Mandamon I should have the LBL's for your last chapters finished tomorrow, if not today. If you didn't get the email linking you to the Google Doc, shoot me a message. 

[Mandamon he/him]

14 minutes ago, Snakenaps said:

If you didn't get the email linking you to the Google Doc, shoot me a message. 

I got it--thank you! I'll be looking at your comments as I revise for next week!

[shatteredsmooth]

1 hour ago, Mandamon said:

Looks like @shatteredsmooth, @Snakenaps, and @aeromancer all wanted to go on June 8?

 

Yes, I would like to go June 8. If I take two weeks off in a row I might not start up again. Need to keep moving forward. 

[kais]

3 hours ago, aeromancer said:

equally fine with either one of us submitting, I'll go ahead and submit.

Go for it, @aeromancer. My deadline is a ways out still and I've plenty of backlog work to do, still. I can take a week off.

[Silk she/her]

Okay then, looks like we have @shatteredsmooth, @Snakenaps , @aeromancer, and @Mandamon rounding out the roster with two slots (yay deadlines) with @kais up for the next week.

[Mandamon he/him]

Well, jumping in for the 15th, and here's the question:

The last chapter is (currently) 9100 words long, and the epilogue is (currently) 3650 words. I don't plan on adding or taking much of anything out. I've had a couple people already read ahead, so does anyone mind if I just take two slots and submit the whole 12k? Then I'll be out of everyone's hair after this week and will free up a couple slots for other subbing books.

Thanks to all for putting up with me!