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I've long suspected that Author Services, Inc., WOTF contest administrator, specifically Ms. Labaqui WOTF contest coordinator, checks for author and story eligibility on the Internet. I imagine there'd be quite a hue and cry raised if an ineligible person or story was posted as a finalist.
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It's an anonymity thing. You don't want to associate your name with your story, or else you might get disqualified. I think the odds of that are slim unless you print it in the manuscript itself (I can't imagine judges really have time to sit around googling story titles, nor would they want to if they might accidentally disqualify someone), but it's better safe than sorry.
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I did Google the titles of the three stories of mine I'd put up on my website. Two of them were the third item on the list...the third was just too common and didn't turn up after ten pages of results. (I can't recall if I've ever mentioned the titles here.)
I tried it out on a few Internet Fan Fiction titles of mine, and produced similar results. One was original enough to be a single page with no entries that didn't refer to the story. (Curiously, two of them seem to have been used as commercial movie titles after I used them---I can't complain---in fact, I'm amused.)
So it would seem this factoid is something to be concerned about. If clarification can be obtained from WotF (or anybody else), it might settle a few things.
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I've been confused about eligibility for WoTF for awhile. I've never been published in anything big. Would I be out if I submitted to WoTF?
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You're perfect for the competition, bababooey. Only three short sales that reach 50,000 reader and, I think, one novel length pro-sale or more are ineligible.
So write and submit. KDW could always use another story to read. I'm sure of it.
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Is there anything wrong with using the first page of an upcoming WotF submission for the application to OSC's Literary Boot Camp?
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