application format preference?

Hello,

Do the organizers have a preference for email or hardcopy applications? I didn't come across this in the FAQ or other workshop information.

Thanks in advance,

Derek

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Comments

Submitted by Kate Schaefer on January 21, 2010 - 9:43pm.

I can answer this one: nope. Whichever format works for you, works for them.

Submitted by Oso on January 21, 2010 - 10:02pm.

I should have sent mine by post.  I sent it electronically and, through faults of my own classic stupidity and the stupidity inherent in computers, what was a 30-page story on one computer arrived as a 36-page story on theirs.  (I tried emailing the 30-page story to another of my own computers and it came out 35 pages...so I have no idea what is going on.  Maybe my desktop computer can't count.)  

That's a thought to stick in your bonnet, anyway.  Printing and mailing should have given me my thirty pages (according to this glorified typewriter).  Apparently now only my first 30 pages will be considered.  But them's the rules.  Oh well, those first thirty pages are quite good.  I hope.

-Oso 

(http://osomuerte.wordpress.com)

Submitted by Corinne on January 22, 2010 - 1:43pm.

Wow. I can't imagine how frustrating that must be! It made me double-check mine on both the Windows laptop and iMac to be sure.

Submitted by neile on February 2, 2010 - 8:21pm.

 

I didn't realize that! I thought that couldn't happen with PDFs.

I guess I just learned something. Maybe it will revert to your original on the readers' computers. We can hope

--Neile

writer; workshop administrator
http:www.sff.net/people/neile

Submitted by Oso on February 2, 2010 - 10:08pm.

Part of the problem was that I sent the PDF like a moron without triple-checking the page count.  I should have sent the .doc or just gone snail mail.  Most of my investigation took place after I got the email saying it was 36 pages.  (I think one was even a cover page from when I sent the story to WotF.  Wrong file for the wrong occasion.  I bet it was wearing brown shoes with a black belt, too.)

I yelled at my computer for a half hour, took a deep breath, and decided God was driving this runaway truck.  So I await my sentence.

I wish I'd hired someone to make this mistake for me.  Then I could fire him.

-Oso 

(http://osomuerte.wordpress.com)