Womag news
People are still getting rejections from TAB. It seems rather a waste of time, as we're told to assume a rejection after three months, and the rejected stories are, as far as I'm aware, all much older than that. In my case, they're nearly all for stories sent and given up on years ago. I've also had rejections for stories TAB have published!
People are still getting rejections from TAB. It seems rather a waste of time, as we're told to assume a rejection after three months, and the rejected stories are, as far as I'm aware, all much older than that. In my case, they're nearly all for stories sent and given up on years ago. I've also had rejections for stories TAB have published!
Free to enter writing competitions
Thanks to Alyson for this flash fiction competition from Curtis Brown. Max word count 300, theme landmarks. The first prize is £300.
The rules state AI must not be used – something I totally agree with, but wouldn't be able to prove I'd complied with. Apparently in some cases, the use of dashes is considered 'evidence' of having cheated in this way, as is the knowledge AI exists.
Here's a poetry competition with £100 first prize (you'll need to scroll down a bit to find it). Thanks to Aly Rhodes for sending me the details.
Thanks to Alyson for the info that Haiku Shack are looking for micro fiction and short poems. They don't pay, but you can submit previously published work – as long as you did't give up all rights, of course.
btw, if you're involved in any publication, physical or digital, which welcome submissions, doesn't charge a submission / reading fee, and would like a mention on my blog, please get in touch.
Patsy has kindly invited me to blog about the work involved in taking those three stories and making them part of a collection that can be read like a novel. So next week I’ll be blogging about the process involved with this. Having just been through the editing stage, I can safely say that it’s been trickier than I initially envisaged!
5 comments:
Well done Liz and to all with positive news.
I haven't heard about the 3 month decision waiting time at TABFF.
I don't think there was a cut- off point there at all. We sent them and waited.
If it was a yes, it came pretty quickly.
I'd assumed that the older stories there were rejects, anyway. No-one seems to have had sales there for at least 2 months now, so we're all wondering what's going on.
Crikey, if I'm going to get accused of using AI if I use dashes, then I'm afraid it's game over for me! It seems a rather silly rule.
No news to report. It's been very quiet. Most of my stories to WW and BOWW have gone past their waiting times, so I've had no luck with them so far this year.
Thanks to Alyson and Patsy. I'm looking forward to Liz's piece. It's interesting what strategies are used for varying outcomes. I'm not writing, just reading, but I've been thinking about how authors write a 'series', but they're all standalones... but they thread together: Little Mallow case in point? Hmm: lot of preparation must go into that!
I use dashes and ellipses a fair bit in my writing, and yet I also have a very firm commitment made against AI on a website. Since the facility for checking whether a piece is or isn't AI is probably an AI feature... well...! (blood pressure going up!🤣)
Thanks to all for the comps info. Congratulations to Liz, look forward to reading your piece on the blog. Enjoy your travels Patsy look forward to more lovely photos. Happy writing everyone!
Rejections for stories they published? That's a new one.
In the past I have volunteered with Zooniverse, where anyone, who has a laptop, can help researchers with a range of projects, classifying data, etc. Sometime ago, one project grabbed my attention - Pinpointing human emotions that characters are feeling in a story. I read that the idea was to build better, more transparent AI systems to study human storytelling. They did add that their goal was not to build robot story tellers – and they wanted to gain a deeper understanding of human storytelling - even so I decided to give that one a miss!
Thank you Aly and Alyson, and I look forward to reading your blog , Liz.
Patsy, hope you manage to keep cool in your mobile writing retreat!
Dee
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