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QUESTION: Is there a difference between Quarterfinalist and Honorable Mention?
Current Score: 338 - Let's try to get to 500
The scoring guidelines have been simplified, and the record has been adjusted. (This is a group tracking our team success as Hatrackers participating in WotF)
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I was going to make a hall of fame for people simply for entering the contest, so everyone's name should be on here.
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Blast! Foiled again. I was guaranteed by a fortune cookie and a message in my cheerios that I would be the 2008 winner. Were it not for these heavenly signs I would never have entered at all.
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Don't be depressed about it. I didn't get much reaction a while back when I put up a "how much did you get for that story?" post...
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I'm not in the habit of checking this forum as regularly. That's my excuse.
Umm....let's see, I have one HM at least...I've lost track of which story I entered when. Going to approximate:
KayTi's WOTF entries:
3Q2007 - HM (5k words) 4Q2007 - nada 1Q2008 - nada 3Q2008 - presumed nada, but haven't gotten MS back yet with fancy reject thank you for playing letter. Still holding out hope that somehow mine got misclassified and is *actually* the missing finalist...
I think that covers it. Still bummed my Mr. Nobody story didn't even get an HM. Gotta get that bad boy out to market.
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Y'know, I did submit stories to them a couple of times. If I finished in the money, or even just out of it, I was never told. (Probably not. The stories were pretty bad.)
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My non-winning stories were 4k and 6k respectively. My submission last time was 5k (I'm totally guessing here but I basically write a 4-8k short story, it's just the distance I'm programmed to run apparently.)
Meanwhile, since I posted last, I now have a new story submitted to 4Q2008 at 6k words. Woo hoo!
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I'm sure there are lots more HM winners(or better) among Hatrack, but they probably haven't visited this thread recently, as I haven't for about three months, then there are those who probably don't want it to be, or care if it is publicly known.
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I do believe this thread should be in Open Forums, since it does have something to do with writing...
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I've had one Honorable Mention and one Nicy Try. As everyone seems to have a different system of what "quarters" and "years" mean for WOTF, I've no idea what they count as.
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quote:Don't be depressed about it. I didn't get much reaction a while back when I put up a "how much did you get for that story?" post...
I had a trawl back through and couldn't find any such post, Robert - can you track it down and revive it, or start again?
It's always intrigued me how few people actually say anything at all about money in relation to writing. Given that many of us here - most, presumably - would like to earn money through our writing, the reluctance to discuss any actual financial issue does seem a touch odd.
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It was "How Much?" somewhere in the Writers in Print forum. I searced the site but wound up on a reply page for it...didn't want to put up a link to that, but it's definitely around...
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Of course you're included, KDW!!! But I was waiting for someone to confirm the details since IB, to me, sounded like he wasn't very sure.
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I entered the 2nd quarter of 2008 and got a 'thanks, but no thanks'. It was a 2500 word story, fantasy. I think I shot myself in the foot with it as it had a POV in 1st, and a different one in 3rd.
I have entered Q4 2008, but have heard nothing except that they have recieved my entry.
That's my total WOTF history.
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Spaceman, you deserve the persistance award for faithfully submititng to the contest (consecutively) since 2005. I hereby award you the gold star of valor.
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