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EUROPE'S MOST VISITED SF/F WEB SITE |
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One Page Stories Submissions (or What To Do, What To Write And How to Submit)
This is an experiment on the website for all of you writers and
neo-writers out there. One of the criticisms that I raise when working
my way through our slush pile is that writers need to learn how to
tell a story with a limited word count to make everything count and
tell a good story.
To this end, we're offering space to print one page stories. Anything that falls outside of the rules below will be rejected with minimal explanation just in case I'm getting too many at a time but it will indicate where any weaknesses lie and what you need to focus on to sort it out for future stories. The Rules:- 1. Story must have a title and author name as well as your email and terrestrial address - these will be omitted, unless asked otherwise, should the story be accepted. 2. The story can be single-lined but must not extend beyond the length of an A4 page with 11/2 inch left margin, 1 inch right margin. I don't care if it's a word or a sentence beyond this length, this has to be obeyed. Part of the objective lesson of this exercise is to keep the word count down and tight to fit A4 size. In case you need to know, it's roughly 600 words but that depends on the length of your words. Just remember an A4 page. 3. Read the rules of grammar and get them as perfect as possible. Set your Word Processor for English (United Kingdom). It can be tagged to one particular story and you can go back to whatever you use in your own country with other documents. Treat this as part of the exercise cos you do do this when submitting to other countries, don't you? 4. Apply standard text format. All paragraphs start with two spaces and there is no need to drop a line between paragraphs. 5. Check out the guidelines as run on the website submissions to see what other foibles I normally like to see, especially regarding speech marks. 6. Be original!!! Any plagiarism or borrowing of copyrighted characters from elsewhere is grounds for instant return. 7. Minimal editing correction will be at editor's discretion and shown to writer before being released on the website. All copyright remains with the writer and it can act as part of your writer's CV. 8. Story should NOT be sent as an attachment but pasted into the normal reply box. Ensure you keep a copy of your story at your end with a simple introduction of who you are. SFCrowsnest take no responsibility for lost stories. In the subject box, type ‘One Page Story’. 9. Editor's decision is final. Easy to follow instructions. There are two stories that can be read already in different styles. It’s up to you as a writer to decide how you will treat your own ideas when converting them into a story. E-mail to me at (and read the email address and remove the words that are used to purge spam to the abyss): gfwillmettsWORDSDONTBELONGHERE@hotmail.com
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OTHER CONTENT - November 2004
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As there are few places and magazines around
to give a chance, we're going to run this here and see how it goes.
If you can get the mechanics of storycraft sorted out at this level,
it will make bigger pieces easier to write.
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