Important Guidelines
Dec. 28th, 2020 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
writerkitFound in submission guidelines: "Please make sure your submission is actually attached to your email."
Which is a good and important reminder-- Google has stopped me a couple of times with "you wrote attached in your email; do you want to attach something?" when I've forgotten this myself-- I'm just amused at how often this apparently happens.
I was similarly amused a while back when I encountered a list of "topics we don't want to see" which included "stories in which global warming is caused by a magical creature." That definitely sounds like it would be hard to do well-- I'm certainly not going to try-- but I'm also slightly boggled by the number of stories they must have gotten on that subject to decide it was necessary to say up front "please don't do that." I don't think I've ever thought "Yes, I want to write a story where global warming is all the magical creatures' fault."
Which is a good and important reminder-- Google has stopped me a couple of times with "you wrote attached in your email; do you want to attach something?" when I've forgotten this myself-- I'm just amused at how often this apparently happens.
I was similarly amused a while back when I encountered a list of "topics we don't want to see" which included "stories in which global warming is caused by a magical creature." That definitely sounds like it would be hard to do well-- I'm certainly not going to try-- but I'm also slightly boggled by the number of stories they must have gotten on that subject to decide it was necessary to say up front "please don't do that." I don't think I've ever thought "Yes, I want to write a story where global warming is all the magical creatures' fault."
