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Ah, I see what you did there, you tinker!
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Up to 30 now. Read a couple of cracking stories tonight. Suddenly the leadership board is getting crowded - in a good way!
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I fear I'm lagging behind quire badly -- I'm only into the early teens with my reading
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All read...wow.
Now the first stage of cuts...the hard part.
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Phew! That's it. Just read the last of the stories. I feel like I've been put through a wringer - in the nicest possible way. Some cracking stories there - my short list kept getting longer and longer. I have 13 pages of notes to review now, and about a dozen stories to reread and from which to choose my top three.
It was luckily I had a few days off this week - no idea how I would have managed this without that time. I'm definitely not cut out to be an editor.
Onwards to round two!
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I'm seriously struggling to get through them all.
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Time to award yourself an extension, Ed? The benefits of being in charge? There nay be other folks who'd appreciate that too.
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No, I'll get through them one way or another, Del
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I'm on #44. This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor. If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies. It is good fun though. If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter.
I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.
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Robert -- Shock Totem has a flash contest set up like this too (it'll probably start up again in January). The stories are prompt-based and you only have a week to write them, but it's great fun too.
On another note--and as much fun as it always is--I'll be really glad when this is over. Between checking the voting thread like a crazy person and reading all the entries, I've been useless writing-wise for the past week and a half.
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Quote from: jingold on November 11, 2010, 10:53:00 AM
Between checking the voting thread like a crazy person and reading all the entries, I've been useless writing-wise for the past week and a half.
Thank goodness I'm not the only one!
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I've been useless for far longer than a week and half!
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Quote from: Robert Essig on November 11, 2010, 10:15:26 AM
I'm on #44. This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor. If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies. It is good fun though. If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter.
I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.
We get nearly 100 submissions a week at Shock Totem, sometimes more. I'd gladly take 50 every two weeks. Haha.
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Quote from: Kenwood on November 11, 2010, 01:46:43 PM
Quote from: Robert Essig on November 11, 2010, 10:15:26 AM
I'm on #44. This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor. If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies. It is good fun though. If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter.
I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.
We get nearly 100 submissions a week at Shock Totem, sometimes more. I'd gladly take 50 every two weeks. Haha.
I stand corrected. Damn that's a lot of stories. My last anthology received 200 submissions in four or five months. 100 a week would melt my brain, though I would have to assume you have some slush readers.
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Quote from: Robert Essig on November 11, 2010, 11:23:46 PM
Quote from: Kenwood on November 11, 2010, 01:46:43 PM
Quote from: Robert Essig on November 11, 2010, 10:15:26 AM
I'm on #44. This doesn't really resemble what it is like to be an editor. If I had to read 50 stories in two weeks I would certainly think twice about editing anthologies. It is good fun though. If there's a competition next year, I'll surely enter.
I think a similar comp with flash fiction would be fun.
We get nearly 100 submissions a week at Shock Totem, sometimes more. I'd gladly take 50 every two weeks. Haha.
I stand corrected. Damn that's a lot of stories. My last anthology received 200 submissions in four or five months. 100 a week would melt my brain, though I would have to assume you have some slush readers.
There's five of us reading, which is great, but it's still tough on all of us, especially those with kids.
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