Laurel may not have reviewed it yet. Since the post date is 2/1, you have two and a half weeks before it posts anyway.
When you use the Admin Note for the event, Laurel will hold stories until the first day of it.
be patient. Mine shows as publishes 2/1.
it's not in drafts, it's not in the pending tab. There is no sign of it.
If it's not in Drafts or Pending, then it seems like something went wrong.
I thought the submission period started on 2/1, but the publish date wasn't until 3/1? If it shows as publishes on 2/1, did something go wrong at your end? Or am I wrong? And there is a high likelihood of the latter!!
Adding an extra warning in the uncounted intro doesn't seem to help. One writer I edit for literally wrote, 750 Word Project, so it's short on purpose, and still got comments about it being too short.
Since "prologue" and "epilogue" will be in the body of the story, they will be counted - kind of hard for Lauren or algorithm to cherry pick words from the body. I don't think, however, that 752 will block you from the challenge.
So, the high likelihood of me being wrong was a certainty!!Submission periods does start on the 1st of February. But that does mean that the stories will be posted on that date as well. You can upload earlier but Laurel will hold it back until the correct date has arrived. The 1st of March is the 'finale' where all of the challenge entries are compiled into one list and posted on the website's front page. So publish date should say 1st of Feb if it's working as intended.
It absolutely will disappoint my... fans (your descriptor).You have piqued all of our interests, dear. You have to post it now, lest you disappoint your fans.
Not really. I re-use characters and locations from my series quite often, in fact the characters in one of my 750 stories were nominated for best Novel/Novalla last year. I'll leave it up to you to determine how you're going to use your plot devices, they can't get real complex in 750 words.
My entry has the same characters as one of my 750 stories from last year.
If you do that it won't be added to the event. In notes to admin you put "750 WORD PROJECT 2024", their bot will miss it if you use the word Contest
Nah, you can put a part in a contest or challenge, as long as it isn't a chapter. Take @EmilyMiller angel and demon series; Books a, b, c, already exist, they all revolve around basically two characters. If she submitted "book" d to this challenge, and book e to the vday contest, or one to both, they still count, because even if they are a part of a series, they aren't chapters, they're standalone stories.
750 Word Project. It's also not a contest, it's a challenge.
Me too, all 26 of them. It'd be a proper struggle to get to 750 words otherwise... even using numerals and punctuation.
Don't worry about it. Last year I had four x 750 word "chapters" published in the collection, over the course of a week. No-one commented about me doing that, and the combined story did okay.
Contests, no Chapters; Challenges - see my previous post. No one really minds what you do, providing each year's entry is self-contained.
