Email List and Submission Dates

[JWerner]

I would also like to submit my story's additions/revisions for Sept. 21, pleas.e 

[Silk she/her]

It looks like we have @ginger_reckoning and @JWerner up for this week.

[ginger_reckoning]

Hello! Can I have a slot for the 28th please? 

[Silk she/her]

So we have @ginger_reckoning for tomorrow - any other takers?

[Snakenaps she/her]

May I submit two chapter for a little less than 6,000 words on Monday, October 5th?

[ginger_reckoning]

Can I have a slot for oct. 5th please?

 

[Silk she/her]

Looks like we have @Snakenaps and @ginger_reckoning for Monday. Three slots left if anyone wants one.

[Robinski he/him]

A message primarily aimed at our new members, of which there are several in the last few weeks.

When submitting, please label all of your files with your username. It just makes it easier to keep track, especially when there are multiple files attached. You'll appreciate the wisdom of this if you are here for a while. For example, I have an RE file on my Mac that has 1,621 files in it (folders per submitter, of course), and you'd be surprised how often being able to track back and check earlier comments or passages of a story comes in handing (for ongoing projects).

You will also see that regular members are in the habit of including the submission date in the file name, which again helps when there are many weekly submission progressing through the same work, and submission of revised versions of previous chapters.

[Sarah B she/her]

Can I have a slot for October 12th? 

I'm hoping deadline panic will kickstart my editing brain for draft 2-3ish. 

[ginger_reckoning]

Can I also have a slot for the 12th?

[Snakenaps she/her]

I would love to say I'll have a chapter done by Monday but, let's face it, odds are low. Besides, I need to catch up on critiques.

So, pass for Monday. 

[Silk she/her]

On 10/8/2020 at 0:50 AM, Robinski said:

A message primarily aimed at our new members, of which there are several in the last few weeks.

When submitting, please label all of your files with your username. It just makes it easier to keep track, especially when there are multiple files attached. You'll appreciate the wisdom of this if you are here for a while. For example, I have an RE file on my Mac that has 1,621 files in it (folders per submitter, of course), and you'd be surprised how often being able to track back and check earlier comments or passages of a story comes in handing (for ongoing projects).

You will also see that regular members are in the habit of including the submission date in the file name, which again helps when there are many weekly submission progressing through the same work, and submission of revised versions of previous chapters.

Seconded. This makes a huge difference.

In related news, it looks like we have @ginger_reckoning and @Sarah B up for Monday.

[sniperfrog he/him]

I think I will be ready for my first submission on the 19th. I am still working out a couple of kinks, but it should be ready by then. 

[ginger_reckoning]

May I have a spot for the 19th as well?

[Sarah B she/her]

If there's room, I would like a slot for the 19th  as well.

[Silk she/her]

Looks we have @sniperfrog, @ginger_reckoning and @Sarah B  up for tomorrow.

Quick reminder as we have a number of folks who've joined recently to keep your submissions to the upper limit of 5k. This will be especially important as it looks like we're heading into another busy period; critiques suffer when the volume becomes overwhelming!

[Robinski he/him]

...what Silk said.

As is typical with hard word count limits, you'll see there is some discretion to go say 10% over without anyone giving it much of a second thought*.

If you absolutely have to go longer, good form is to ask if anyone would mind reading a longer submission in a given week, and to try to avoid doing it on a regular basis.

 

(* Does not apply to publisher submissions!!!)

[ginger_reckoning]

May I have a slot for monday the 26th? (Just fyi I will be taking a break for Nanowrimo after that) 

[Silk she/her]

On 10/24/2020 at 10:40 AM, ginger_reckoning said:

May I have a slot for monday the 26th? (Just fyi I will be taking a break for Nanowrimo after that) 

You may!

Any other takers for tomorrow?

[Sarah B she/her]

16 hours ago, Silk said:

You may!

Any other takers for tomorrow?

I'm going to take an extra week to hopefully do some revisions and redrafting :-) next week for sure though!

[sniperfrog he/him]

Started a new job last week. I have been busy with the transition, so I haven't had a lot of time for writing. Hopefully next week maybe.

[ginger_reckoning]

5 hours ago, sniperfrog said:

Started a new job last week. I have been busy with the transition, so I haven't had a lot of time for writing. Hopefully next week maybe.

Congrats on the new job! Hope it's not too stressful. 

Edited October 27, 2020 by ginger_reckoning

[Silk she/her]

Congrats @sniperfrog!

[Robinski he/him]

Good luck with the new job, @sniperfrog. Hope it goes well  

And good luck with NaNoWriMo, @ginger_reckoning. But of course luck has nothing to do with it, just write 1,667 words a day: no problem . 

Glad you're subbing again, @Sarah B, I'm really enjoying your story.

Was it you who said it was your first time looking at it? Anyway, for anyone who's listening, free advice: (1) get out in front early, you'll really appreciate having a handful of thousand words in the bank for those days you just can't do it; (2) Be ready to start on the first day. Don't start planning on the first day, unless you are going to write character background, and count world building narrative towards your word count, which, I think is reasonable if it's proper narrative that adds to the story, even if it's not going to end up in the finished work.

I stopped doing NaNo in 2017 because it wasn't really working for me anymore, but it's a powerful tool to get you moving, a powerful tool for building the writing habit. I still use it as a motivation to me today. Pretty much the first thing I think about every day is writing. (I don't get to show these off much, humour me, will you? )

Edited October 27, 2020 by Robinski

[sniperfrog he/him]

11 hours ago, ginger_reckoning said:

Congrats on the new job! Hope it's not too stressful. 

 

10 hours ago, Silk said:

Congrats @sniperfrog!

 

20 minutes ago, Robinski said:

Good luck with the new job, @sniperfrog. Hope it goes well  

Thanks guys! It has been pretty sweet so far. Only four days a week and I get to work with all my friends. 

@Robinski What a legend. That is amazing. I can see why it has lost its appeal for you.