Writer of the Future. Who Has Been Entering Lately?

[Christopher]

Back during WorldCon, I remember quiet a few people talking about entering...or that they had already submitted stuff for WOF. So, how's it going?

And Bradon, before you became the professional author we all admire , you entered, right? How did you do? How many times did you enter?

I'm working hard and furiously to get a story done before the next deadline...Dec. 31st. We'll see how it goes.

And, to expand this beyond just WOF...what other contests have you guys been submitting to?

Chris

[Rosencrantz]

I got a reject for the second quarter and I just got my quarter-finalist rejection for the third quarter today, and I'm mailing out another story for it in a couple days.

[Christopher]

My story made it to the quarter finals also.

I just finished the draft of the story I'll be submitting by the 31st.

It is better than my last one...and the beginning of a series of novels.

A few minor rewrites and it should be good to go.

[WriterDan]

I'll be submitting my second short story to WOF by... tomorrow.  Eeek.  Need to get busy on the editing.  My first didn't get anything, but that wasn't much of a surprise.  Glad to know I have some fellow TWG'ers for competition.  Good luck all.

[WriterDan]

So, my most recent short story submission to WotF is off and I'm starting on a sketch for my next submission (Mar 31st).  I have hopes to submit a new story for every quarter this year.  We'll see what happens. 

[Christopher]

My story made it to the quarter finals also.

I just finished the draft of the story I'll be submitting by the 31st.

It is better than my last one...and the beginning of a series of novels.

A few minor rewrites and it should be good to go.

I just got another letter today about my 1st Q 2007 submission. My story was one of the semi-finalists. I got a pretty long critique from K. D. Wentworth. She said "this should be a novel". Ha..ha..exactly! And all because Brandon lets me post irrelevant stuff like this on his forum  .

[EUOL]

Congrats, Christopher!  Nice to hear from you.

That's great.  Pretty much the same thing I got from WotF the year before I got published, so that's good news.  May you have the same luck I did.

[candylion]

WotF?

-is confused-

[Shrain]

um... Look at the thread's title.

WotF= Writers of the Future. (http://www.writersofthefuture.com)

It's a prestigious writing contest founded by  L. Ron Hubbard in 1983. All the winners are published in a paper back volume. The stories are judged by a bunch of well-known authors. There's no fee to enter, and they give out small prizes every three months ($1,000, $750, $500 ) and then one grand prize of $5,000. Oh, and the contest is open only to those who have not been published professionally. (Well, there's more to it than that, but you can take a look at the rules if you're interested.)

Oh, and you can also submit illustrations, candylion, which I'm betting is what would pique your interest the most.

[Daen]

I guess I could maybe look at the link to get this answered, but what size stories have you guys been submitting for this?  Seems like they're short stories, but I'm still a little hazy on what exactly qualifies as a short story.  Under 20 pages?  More less?  I might consider sending something in.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Fiction length is usually counted in words. For science fiction, according to the major awards bodies, under 7,500 is short story; 7,500–17,500 is novelette; 17,500–40,000 is a novella, and longer than that is a novel.

WotF's rules list their max cutoff as 17,000 words.

[candylion]

L. Ron Hubbard?

Didn't he find(hehe) Scientology?

With an intergalactic walrus and a brainwashing motion picture?

-laughs....alot-

Wooom illustrations?

I'm on it!

-runs away with her banana milk...the best thing in Korea-

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Something like that.

L. Ron was always a science fiction writer. Scientology was just his most successful piece of pseudo-science fiction. I am not entirely sure how continuing to run the Writers of the Future contest fits in with the rest of Bridge Publications' goals, but it seems to be pretty separate. Heck, Dave Wolverton was a coordinator for many years, and he's Mormon.

[WriterDan]

Actually going to start drafting my new short story for submission this quarter (ends June 30th) in the next few days or so.  Anyone else have one going in this quarter?

[candylion]

Meeebbbbeeee, If I can get my act together. Good news, I forced ym cousins to take me to an art store, finally bought a black copic marker and some shoddy inking pens. But I got bettter paper, now it's just practice. There's always going to be something cool about traditional art.

Anywho, I might...just because I have nothing else to do right now in Korea. Preparing myself for RSOM, but this is the wrong thread.

Good luck everyone!

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