Email List + Submission Dates

[jwdenzel]

I'd like to submit for the next round, please.

Thanks

[maxonennis]

I want to submit on Monday too.

And Reaves, my personal opinion is that you shouldn't edit anything until the entire book's been critqued. Doing so can confuse the critquers.

[Frog]

And Reaves, my personal opinion is that you shouldn't edit anything until the entire book's been critqued. Doing so can confuse the critquers.

No offense but, what's the point of getting critiques if you're not going to use them to fix the book as you go? I think making edits should be encouraged as long as you explain significant changes in the summaries. But that's just me.

[jwdenzel]

I think making edits should be encouraged as long as you explain significant changes in the summaries. But that's just me.

Concur.

[maxonennis]

I'm a big believer that you finish a darft and then go on to the next, make those corrections and then move on to the next etc.

[Frog]

I think making edits should be encouraged as long as you explain significant changes in the summaries. But that's just me.

Concur.

Oh, shoot. Why do you always have to- Oh. You're actually agreeing with me. Carry on then.

I'm a big believer that you finish a darft and then go on to the next, make those corrections and then move on to the next etc.

Aw, well we are all going to have different writing styles. Me, I'm a compulsive editor. I just can't seem to leave well enough alone. But then it's getting better, right? Or at least in theory....

[jwdenzel]

I think it does a disservice to everybody if you simply hand in your first raw draft. I mean, what do you expect to happen? There are going to be problems, there will be typos, and it will likely get shredded.   But if you put your best effort forward, after fixing stuff, then the people reading it won't focus on stuff you already know about and can instead focus on the things you don't see.   Which is the whole point, right?

Maybe it's just me.  But in the week leading up to a submission, (like this one for me, for example) I always go back to those chapters I plan on submitting and clean things up as best I can and put as much polish as possible.

(Sorry if we're getting too off topic here)

[Reaves]

A lot of the stuff that I write desperately needs a good run-through. Sometimes sentence structure needs to change. Sometimes the dialogue falls flat. Sometimes a line is unnecessary and confusing and needs to be cut.

Of course there is a drawback. Often I have added something in at the last instant and then everyone latches on to that one thing that doesn't fit.

I do understand what you mean about confusing the critiquers. Just recently I made a decision to revamp entire parts of my world. It won't change anything major or important in the story itself, but readers seeing it for the first time could be a bit disoriented. Of course, I'll make a note that explains what it is, but still.

I just think that I should do everything I can to make the manuscript as good as it can be before I submit, and then use those comments to make it even better.

[Hamster]

As long as there aren`t alot of other people who would like to submit, I would like to do submit again this Monday, as my next chapter actually follows the same character from the previous one!  So I`d like to submit while it`s somewhat fresh.

[jwdenzel]

I just remembered that I will be out of town this weekend through mid next week.  So no submission afterall.

I'll submit the following week probably.
J

[Frog]

I just remembered that I will be out of town this weekend through mid next week.  So no submission afterall.

Now that's just not nice. I was looking forward to ripping through your stuff again.

[jwdenzel]

I promise that this new material will be extra ripe for you to bite into.

[Reaves]

I just remembered that I will be out of town this weekend through mid next week.  So no submission afterall.

Now that's just not nice. I was looking forward to ripping through your stuff again.

I was looking forward to reading your stuff too I'll guess I'll have to wait

[jwdenzel]

I just remembered that I will be out of town this weekend through mid next week.  So no submission afterall.

Now that's just not nice. I was looking forward to ripping through your stuff again.

I was looking forward to reading your stuff too I'll guess I'll have to wait

The Pressure!    *flees the country*
;-)

[Necroben]

If it's not too late, I'd like to submit something.