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So we have Coop, Vreeah, Robinski, Hobbit, AuthorityHellas for the 5th with kaisa down for next week.

That looks like our five for this week: Hobbit, Robinski, neongrey, spieles, kaisa.

Or not, since you beat me to finishing this joke. So far we have: krystalynn03, Vreeah, kaisa, neongrey. One or potentially two slots still available based on neongrey's comment above.

Definitely not. I still have most of my hearing!

It is, yes! A long-awaited vacation which I kept delaying because I didn't know what was going on with my job. Pretty simple as vacations go, but still, I'm really looking forward to it. I have no doubt that you all will do an even better job of counting to five than I do; as a musician, I can only count to four anyway.

So we have Coop, kaisa, neongrey, AuthorityHellas, and possibly king007. King, are you still wanting to submit? Oh, I should also note that I'll be out of town starting Saturday, so won't be around to confirm submission requests for the 15th or 22nd.

Recently we've had some discussions around the delivery of critiques. Please note that it is not appropriate to deliver a critique that is aggressive towards another writer on the forum, even if the content of that critique is delivered in good faith (which our current guidelines do NOT do a good job of acknowledging--more on that in a moment). It is also worth keeping in mind that, due to the nature of the forum, we are constantly working with people we don't know very well, or at all, and newcomers to the group may have a great deal of experience writing and critiquing (or being critiqued) or none at all. A critique that I give to someone in this group is going to look very different than a critique that I deliver to someone that I know very well, and/or whom I've worked extensively with as a writer. Obviously, honesty is crucial to effective critique, and there is nothing even necessarily wrong with being blunt. That said, even a negative critique shouldn't be mocking or aggressively phrased, no matter how strongly the critiquer feels about whatever it is that they're critiquing. You can express concern, distaste, disagreement, or dislike without being rude to the person on the other end. We're all writers here; we're all up to the task. As I mentioned above, our current guidelines in the "Welcome to RE" thread really do not do an adequate job of outlining how we as forum members should give and receive critiques. They have been overdue for a revamp for quite some time. That being said, this seems like a good time to open the floor to a discussion of what people would like to see addressed in a new set of guidelines.

While it looks like the conversation has closed and I hate to hijack this thread even further (apologies to Ghando), I do think it's appropriate that folks know where I stand on this one. Briefly: I accept that this is was intended as good-faith critique but also agree that way in which it was delivered was unduly harsh, and second the request of the mods to be mindful of that in the future.

So for tomorrow we have krystalynn, spieles, kaisa, neongrey, and Robinski.

Looks like that's our five for Monday then: spieles, neongrey, AuthorityHellas, Ghando43, and kaisa

Yes, please do! My bad.

So we have four for Monday at the moment: neongrey, kaisa, Robinski, AuthorityHellas.

Sorry, didn't see this in time. Instead of of having someone submit mid-week I will put you on the list for Monday the 18th.

Yes, go for it.

Looks like we have just Ghando and Mandamon submitting tomorrow.

Just seeing this now, but yes, go for it! Take advantage of that empty slot.

Do you have an agent already? If not--forgive me if I'm telling you something you already know--then it's probably worth sending out some query letters posthaste. My understanding is that many agents will respond quite quickly if they know there's already an offer on the table.

In that case, we have four submitters for Monday: Mandamon, spieles, neongrey, Wayne Ligon

I'll pin for now, as requested, probably only temporarily--only because I don't want to crazy with pinning things (or else there's no point). I'll make sure this thread is in there when I update the list of resources etc. we have going on in the "Welcome to Reading Excuses" thread though, so it will always be easily accessible. (Probably best to just send me a PM to make sure I see stuff like this, btw.) Glad this discussion is happening though. Thanks for kicking it off!

It's been a busy few weeks! We have seven requests so I am going to be doing a bit of juggling here. kaisa and Mandamon, I know you requested slots early this week, but I'm going to ask you both to hold off for this week--Eisenheim hasn't been submitting as frequently and spieles is just getting back. I will pencil you both in for next week. Jun 27th: neongrey, spieles, AliasSheep, Robinski, Eisenheim Jul 4th (tentative): kaisa, Mandamon

For tomorrow, we have: Eagle of the Forest Path, Mandamon, kaisa, neongrey, Eisenheim The tentative list for next week so far is: AliasSheep, Robinski

Seems unlikely that we'll get any more requests at this late hour. So, the 5 submitters for Monday are Mandamon, Kammerite, kaisa, neongrey, krystalynn03

We probably have, come to think of it. I've never heard of a Fernie but I live in the Okanagan valley.

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about your father-in-law. Hope you had at least a few chances to relax and enjoy over the trip? And I thought Creston sounded familiar. You were only a few hours away from me!

So what part of Canada were you in, Robinski?