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Sorry, folks. I have absolutely nothing to say about this topic - I just had to tip the number of posts from 99 to 100.
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I think it's just Snapper and Sara now. The whole project was a huge success though, with many HM's. Pretty impressive! Just goes to show you how good this group is (gives KDW unrequited hug and peck on the cheek)
Tracy
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The last of the HM's are up and the semi and finalists should be up anytime. Holding my breath for Sara and Snapper.
Tracy
The only finalist we know of so far is Ben Hardin of Utah. Not sure if he's a member of Hatrack. His previous pubs include a short story in The Leading Edge, a science-fiction/fantasy anthology. 2004. Currently at BYU.
Note: BENJAMIN HARDIN had an HM in the first quarter.
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Semi-Finalist. A little bitter sweet to be honest. That girl can write. But it all comes down to KD Wentworth in the end.
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Yep, congrats to arriki and Sara! Welcome to the club. I congrated Brenta today, who has a nonwinning finalist with me in Q4, and she said it's almost better to be a semifinalist than a nonwinning finalist--you get pro feedback.
The Top 18 is no small feat by any means, especially this quarter.
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Yep, I think I'm the Sara in the semis list. There can't be another writing SF from Madrid, Spain.
I've emailed the admins to correct the mistake, though. So unless there is another Sara SF writer over here who doesn't go to the only English language crit group that I know of in Madrid, the correct name should be up on the blog shortly.
I'm thrilled to have made the semis and look forward to KD's critique: I've heard they're really good.
Thanks everyone for the congrats and support. Hanging out with you here is a blast.
And congrats to all the other HM's and semi-finalists. Are there any finalists around here? If so, mega congrats to them too.
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How do they send the critiques? I never received a phone call or email, just say my name and state on the list.
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I just got my answer yesterday. It seems I have the distinct honor of receiving the last 'you didn't win' messages this quarter. News went great with th rest of my week. Laptops fried, ladies and gents. You'l be hearing from me a litte less for awhile.
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You'll get a page-long critique from Kathy--if I remember from a year ago correctly, it'll come in the SASE you sent them. It'll probably be a few more weeks. Kathy has to reread all the semis.
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Sorry to hear that Snapper. There was some tough competition this quarter. Hope your week gets better also. I am having a rough one as well.
Congrats everyone. I thought that must have been Sara. I didn't imagine there being to many great SF writers named Sara in Madrid. Since this is the last quarter that you are eligible, I am glad you went out on top. Keep up the good work.
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Incidently, I don't think any of the HM or semi-finalists from Hatrack were in that group(WOTF q2). I wasn't. Just putting that out there, not saying that you shouldn't join the group or anything...
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I was in that group, Patrick James. It was very valuable to me, and I'm sure helped me to get the HM. I'd recommend the WoTF group to anyone. The people that participate are great!
And congrats to arriki on your semi-finalist story.
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I got home the other day and read my rejection letter. They referred me to a site on formatting. Now I had my daughter print my script out (I was away) and she didn't incert my headers (title and page numbers). Would it have gotten rejected because of that? I hate to think so but the rules do state that they are needed.
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Snapper, I use the template you can download from Shimmer. That way I start out with the right formatting. I don't have a link to it handy but it's linked to their submission guideline page.
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I went to Shimmer (www.shimmerzine.com), and the templates were a bit tricky to find.
You have to go to the submission guidelines page, and then scroll down to the "Formatting" paragraphs. The word "templates" right above "How to Submit" is a download link for the templates, even though (so far as I could tell on my browser) it wasn't underlined or a different color. If you click on it, the templates can be downloaded to your computer at a .zip file.
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I'd forgotten that it's a little hard to find, but I recall it taking me a minute to figure it out the first time I went there. But it's nice to have a template for formatting set up exactly how it should be. The only changes I made in it were to insert my personal information and change the font from Courier New to Dark Courier--a personal preference that still fits within guidelines. I got the recommendation for that font from Robert Sawyer's excellent website.
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What is there about the templating that's hard? Am I missing something crucial? I'm about to send off a story to the Heinlein contest. They wanted in .txt, .rtf, .pdf, or .doc format.
WOTF accepted in Word or WordPerfect, if I remember right.
If I just do a save in, say, .txt from WordPerfect my text will go through legibly enough, or won't it? Heading with partial title, page numbers all there????
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Put me in a concrete room -- soudproofed -- with a thousand ceramic dishes to break one at a time while I scream!
Oh, oh, OH!!!!!
I can't believe it! The only reason "Redlight" did not make it to the finals is that at the bottom of page three a line was dropped. The last three words of a sentence somehow didn't get printed even though they are in the file on my computer!!!
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Really? Oh my, let me into that room and I'll help you break those dishes.
Wow, I never would have thought to do a page-line check on a final draft. Usually I print the final one and then kind of close my eyes (after proofing the cover page and checking that all pages printed in black ink) and stuff it in an envelope and try not to look at it again lest my personal editor break from her padded cell and start trying to make changes yet again.
I'll think twice about doing that in the future. I am sorry!
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