Who's up for the Ready for Market (RFM) challenge for June?
I’m temporarily (?) taking over for Talespinner as chief slave-driver on the ready for market Viking boat.
This challenge is for stories that have been through a critique process from an independent third party (e.g. here in F&F) and are ready to submit to market -- after a final bit of polish in the RFM challenge. Crits are generally short, direct, though polite and constructive and helpful.
Though it might seem obvious that in order to be published, you need to submit stories to markets, the final step of submitting your story can be daunting. The RFM challenge is both a call to arms to submit your story to market and a chance to have another pair of eyes look over your story before it goes out.
Here are the rules (hopefully I've gotten it right this time):
http://www.hatrack.com/forums/writers/forum/Forum7/HTML/000123.html
If you have something you'd like to offer, please so indicate in this thread and I'll kick off the challenge later today or tomorrow.
Cheers,
Nick
*Edited for being an idiot and putting in the wrong URL*
[This message has been edited by Nick T (edited June 11, 2009).]
quote:
I’m temporarily (?) taking over for Talespinner as chief slave-driver on the ready for market Viking boat.
You're doing great, Nick T, and thanks, I appreciate it.
I've not had much energy for writing lately, because of pressures of work, so I'd be grateful if you would continue. Or maybe consider rotating the leadership amongst contributors.
Cheers,
Pat
Not complaining, the workload is quite minimal from my end. It just feels like I'm stealing it from you.
Nick
Just one more bump...people who want to participate in this challenge have until (around about) tomorrow to post their 1st 13s.
One reminder with the challenge is to please follow through with your critiques if you've promised the author you will review them. If you can't follow through, send the author a quick note. It's bad form to possess someone else's story and not critique it in some fashion.
Doc Brown, I wasn't going to critique this time around (overwhelmed by rejection, so I need a mental break), but if you can't find anyone by, say, the 13th of the month, let me know.
Regards,
Nick
If you wanted to add, please do it now-ish...I like to give people enough time to choose which stories they want to critique, etc. so it's probably good to close it off to new entrants soon.
Nick
[This message has been edited by Nick T (edited June 11, 2009).]
Could someone kindly post the rules?
He's right about the link though, Nick. It just links to another Open Discussion thread with another link, not to the actual challenge thread.
Bugger. I'll try and fix it, I must have copied and pasted it incorrectly.
Troy, basically there's a thread in the challenge section where you're meant to post your 1st 13. People then select which stories they want to critique, etc. pretty much like a normal 1st 13. The only restrictions are the dates (end of month for the critiques) and the fact that the story is ready for market and it's been through some kind of critique process.
Nick
[This message has been edited by Nick T (edited June 11, 2009).]
Mentally I say it all the time.
Nick