Email List + Submission Dates

[Silk]

It's not a big deal if you submit 5k instead of 4k; we're pretty flexible. The 4k limit is just a guideline to keep us from getting inundated with novella-sized submissions every week.

I think trying to cap submissions by word count would be difficult (especially since a lot of people are writing their submissions the weekend or even the Monday morning before they submit), and it might end up limiting the number of people who could submit in a week unduly. Maybe for weeks when we have fewer submitters (say, three or less) we could up the word cap for their submissions or something so they can push more material through. If people are willing to give up their quieter weeks, of course.

The crazy busy weeks happen, but not very often, and mostly I think it just means that people are a little slower getting to critiques, not that they don't get to them at all.

4-5k isn't a lot, it's true, but there are a lot of us. Having submissions of 8-10k would add up in a real hurry with just five people submitting a week; at that point you're practically critiquing a book a week, and I suspect a lot of people wouldn't be able to keep up. And I think most people don't want to see the number of crits they get a week go down.

[Frog]

I'm not too worried about the cap because I am pretty good about NOT reading when I get too busy. Six or so is probably reasonable. As far as critiquing go, it may sound selfish, but the best way to get a regular critique from me is to regularly critique my stuff. Than I am plagued with guilt and HAVE to get yours eventually, even if my schedule may delay it a while. Otherwise, I may get to it, I may not, all depending on how I feel and how busy I am. I have a fairly good record at the moment, but I make no promises.

[Flo_the_G]

Having not checked my RE inbox last week, I can safely say that seeing eleven new, unread submissions all at once induces panic, shortness of breath and nausea.

On an entirely unrelated and not at all hysterical note: for the love of God, people, don't call your files "Reading Excuses.doc" or "Chapter 1.rtf"!

Now if you will excuse me, I believe I have some reading to catch up on.

[Silk]

Flo: do the 30 in mine make you feel better?

Yikes. I knew I was behind, but I didn't know I was THAT behind. Sorry folks!

Uh, yeah, if you could name your documents with y0ur name and story title or something, that'd be a lot more helpful.

[Chaos]

You're supposed to include your username and the work title on the file. Or else I'll smack you

[Recovering_Cynic]

I have been having a problem with the email system we are currently using.  Every time I get someone's submissions, it comes out in duplicate.  It's not a huge deal, but it is kind of annoying.  Has anyone else been having the same problem, or is my name somehow on the list twice?

[Chaos]

I have been having a problem with the email system we are currently using.  Every time I get someone's submissions, it comes out in duplicate.  It's not a huge deal, but it is kind of annoying.  Has anyone else been having the same problem, or is my name somehow on the list twice?

I just checked the list, and your email is only on their once. This is very bizarre.

Lethalfalcon also tells me that when he submitted, when he got his own email, it erased the filename off of his attachment. As far as I know, both of these problems have been isolated incidents and haven't affected any other members.

I'll talk with strider and Silk about it. Very bizarre...

[Recovering_Cynic]

Well, it might be isolated in the sense that I am the only person getting duplicates, but for about two weeks now, everything that comes to me via the all[at]readingexcuses[dot]com mailing list has been showing up in pairs.  Without fail.

[Chaos]

Just for two weeks?

Now, that's even stranger.

[Silk]

I haven't seen either problem, personally.

No, you're not on the list twice; I don't think that app will put an email on the list more than once.  (Unless perhaps you had a second email address that forwarded to the first and they BOTH ended up on the list somehow. Not that this would make sense considering it's only been happening for a couple of weeks.)

I'll see what I can do... but it'll have to wait until the weekend, I'm afraid.

[lethalfalcon]

Just for your reference (since Chaos brought the problem out)

Here's the relevant source from my email. I will note that I have no attachment rewriting scripts/daemons on this email account, and all other submissions I've received fine.

Content-Type: application/msword; name=".doc"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline; filename=".doc"; filename=".doc"

The filename is just gone. It's really odd.

[Recovering_Cynic]

Silk, Chaos said he fixed it.  We'll know for sure next time we send out submissions.

[Silk]

Okay. Thanks guys.

lethalfalcon: Yeah, I'm afraid I have no idea. :/ Let us know if it happens again, I guess.

[Recovering_Cynic]

So I just finished a chapter yesterday that I'd like to submit on Monday.  I'm excited to see what you all think of it.  It's not flashy action or anything like that, but I really like how it turned out. 

[Andrew the Great]

If we're not too busy, I'll polish up another chapter of NaNoWriMo to submit. I might even be able to work in some editing time so you guys don't have to put up with what I crapped out for NaNoWriMo.

And are we supposed to be naming our files that way too? I was under the impression that was just the subject line of the email. Sorry!