Tag: readers
member name: Dale C.
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June 12, 2008 10:45 PM EDT --
Announcing: The Writing Wombats Slushpile Simulator Competition
My intent is to confound those who think the Writing Wombats are short on writing and long on miscellaneous chat. As an incidental . . .
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June 21, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
We're getting enough entries that it may be getting a little harder to find all of them. Here are links to all of the entries so far in alphabetical order by title. As new entries come . . .
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April 04, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
Most of us received the letter from gather.com telling us basically that (a) we didn't make the final 20, and (b) they will do this again. I know most of us are tired and disappointed. . . .
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January 18, 2009 09:27 PM EST --
If you’ve been around aspiring writers much you know that a good percentage of them produce the writing equivalent of really bad karaoke. You also know that there are undiscovered gems out there. . . .
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July 11, 2008 09:01 PM EDT --
Announcing the top ten entries in the Writing Wombat Slushpile Simulator Contest. And our winner is:
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John L. (springycom)
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Jamie . . .
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January 23, 2009 03:03 PM EST --
Part one looked at how the filters that keep readers from having to sort through a glut of really bad writing are breaking down. Part two looked at how authors and readers can adapt to a world where . . .
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March 29, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
You've read a lot of First Chapters. What turns you off about an entry? What are the most common errors or problems you see? What do you find yourself telling people over and over . . .
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December 25, 2007 09:54 AM EST --
Hi. I just want to get this group started by posting an initial article. Here are some questions/topics for discussion. Take them and run with them if you want to, or ignore them and . . .
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April 09, 2008 11:38 AM EDT --
I've wanted to be a writer since I was around 12 years old. I started a lot of stories through the years, but only got serious about writing in the summer of 1994. As the fourteenth anniversary . . .
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June 27, 2008 07:00 PM EDT --
Note: This is an entry in the Writing Wombat Slushpile Simulator Contest. I am posting it to maintain the author's anonymity. All rights to this content remain the author's . . .
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July 09, 2008 01:09 AM EDT --
Here is a list of the authors who have entered the Writing Wombat Slushpile Simulator Contest. Authors are listed by Gather screen name. If an author is listed more than once that means . . .
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January 23, 2009 02:15 PM EST --
Part one looked at how the filters that keep readers from having to sort through a glut of really bad writing are breaking down. This section will look at how authors and readers can adapt to a . . .
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July 12, 2008 01:48 PM EDT --
I'm not going to link the details for anyone but the top ten to specific entries, but several people have expressed an interest in the statistics for the rest of the field. Something to keep . . .
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March 28, 2007 02:53 PM EDT --
For the last two or three years, my sister and I have been living two lives. When we're home we have relatively normal lives with family, TV, time on the computer, work, and sometimes a little . . .
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March 18, 2009 06:52 PM EDT --
You've probably already figured this out if you've looked at the writing market lately, but the market is beyond saturated with new would-be writers. Agents are getting 200+ novel manuscripts . . .
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