The Rules Of Reading Excuses

[jwdenzel]

((First post! Yay))  Me = TWG newbie.

I'm interested in being involved in this.  But first... I saw some discussion about this, but never saw a solid answer. Can I be a reader only for right now, and then submit in a few weeks/months/years/decades when I'm actually ready?

Looking forward to this
J

[Silk]

Welcome!

What we're asking everyone to do as far as critiques go is one critique for at least every submission you yourself put in, at a minimum. And we encourage everybody to do as many as they can each time, to ensure that everybody at least gets a couple of solid critiques, but we're not going to expect everybody to critique everybody every time. In a perfect world, we would, but it's not really reasonable...

And yes, as long as you're planning on submitting eventually we're happy to sign you up as a reader (we've got a couple people doing that already). I think the only thing we didn't come to a conclusion on was people who are JUST readers, but if you're planning on submitting to us sometime in the forseeable (not necessarily near, but forseeable ) future that's fine.

[jwdenzel]

Cool. Sign me up as a reader for now.  But I'll submit eventually. Maybe in early '09.
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[Necroben]

Cool. Sign me up as a reader for now.  But I'll submit eventually. Maybe in early '09.

Do you want to have the submissions that have already been sent out to be sent to you now?  I've got no problem with sending it again, the more the merrier!

[jwdenzel]

Sure! Go ahead.  Thanks.

Is there a preferred deadline to give feedback by?

[Necroben]

I don't think one has been set, but I think before the next submission.  It seems that submission dates are being moved around/tinkered with at the moment so that may change as well.

[Silk]

What we're trying for is to get as many as we can done before that person has their next submission, which makes sense, I think.

I also think someone should be able to go back and critique something they didn't get to earlier, though, which is why I prefer to leave things nebulous. Well, that, and I don't want to overload everybody with too many deadlines and stuff. As large as this group is, we could easily overload someone.

I'll add you as a reader. We'll start nagging you in early '09.

[firstRainbowRose]

Wait, I'm slightly confused about something now.  I thought that you only submitted once a month (1st or 15th) and that was it for the month.  But now it sounds like you submit on both?!  Or is that just some people that are doing that?

[Silk]

Officially, right now, we're still looking at once a month each - the 1st and the 15th for the different groups,

Some people feel that a month is two long to wait between submissions, though - it is problematic, though any solution we come up with is going to be problematic in a different way - so we've been thrasing out some different ideas as to what we could do. This thread is where the discussion is taking place.

[Manyang]

Aw man.... My chapters are between 3000 and 7000 words each, first draft, but still, I'm gonna be laughed to death 

[Flo_the_G]

I don't even have chapters yet... I'm not even sure if I need them, though.

Anyway: more readers are a good thing, they make me feel less silly.

[jwdenzel]

Okay... *deep breath*

Move me from a reader to a submitter, please.  I think I'm ready to send a draft by the list.  It doesn't have to be this next deadline per say. Whenever you can fit me in.

I'll continue to provide feedback on everything I've received though.

[Reaves]

Yay, more submitters are a good thing! It makes me feel less silly when there are only two of us for a given week!!

-Also, put me on the list for submitting on monday.

[Frog]

Yay! Welcome to the submitting shark tank Jason! Don't worry, we don't bit off heads, we just gnaw on them a lot. 

[Silk]

Frog is so encouraging, isn't she?

Reaves - got you. Jason, you're welcome to submit this Monday if you want.

Though I'mma nudge any further discussion over to the Email Lists thread, just so we have it all in one place.