The Official Authors' Hangout Winter Holidays 2025 Support Thread

It was originally going to be a follow-up to last year's contest entry but I decided, when it got rejected, to submit it as just a Christmas story, so nobody should be going into it thinking it's a contest entry.

If it's in the contest I'll be surprised.

Oh, my bad. I saw it mentioned in here and just assumed it was an entry for this year's contest.
 
Awww, I just noticed that the home page Lit lady (does she have a name? I have no idea) is dressed up in Christmas attire. How festive!

Now when they finally release one of those pens that makes the dress fall off, I'll have to get that one too to add to my collection.
If she’s a lady, then I’m a gentleman.
 
Not sure what I'm supposed to do besides stress-check my story's current score the same way I kept stress-checking to see if it'd been approved yet, but thanks.

Most of us do that at least once per day; some people here admit to doing it once per minute, with spreadsheets!

Either way, enjoy the ride. The fluctuations in the numbers usually don't have much to do with the final result, though.
 
You should still have some time to resubmit your story. They know the end of the contest window is coming up so it might get approved pretty quick.
You'd think so, but it's not the case. Mine was sent back and I resubmitted it early
on the 2nd. It's just been sitting there in "pending" ever since.
 
As seems to be the way for me of late, my entry "Derailed" was submitted a few hours back. I set myself a challenge last year to write a 2025 word story centred around the new year celebrations, so I thought it would be fun to do something similar for 2026 which is currently underway. Mmm sounds like I may be talking myself into organising an author challenge for 2027 :D
 
You'd think so, but it's not the case. Mine was sent back and I resubmitted it early
on the 2nd. It's just been sitting there in "pending" ever since.
Can yu send me link and name of story and I will flag to Laurel - it had the winter holidays text in the Notes to Admin? right?
 
Not gonna lie, I only went back and watched the video to figure out what the "fish test" was.


Wow, my guess was waaaaay off.
Yeah, not that kinda fish ;)

But I'm surprised the test doesn't have the caveat you have to be completely relaxed. It's actually really easy to create a deep valley in the collar area if you just tilt your neck forward and slightly raise your shoulders. I mean, I can do it just fine, and I'm the furthest thing away from a lithe Chinese girl.
 
Yeah, not that kinda fish ;)

But I'm surprised the test doesn't have the caveat you have to be completely relaxed. It's actually really easy to create a deep valley in the collar area if you just tilt your neck forward and slightly raise your shoulders. I mean, I can do it just fine, and I'm the furthest thing away from a lithe Chinese girl.


Well, if anyone could explain the fish test it would be a lobster....
 
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