sign your stories, in fact, format the page like youre going to submit it for publication wouldnt hurt either..

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hey, yaw.  hopefully i'll catch a few eyes here

im going through several workshopsubmissions, trying to print pages (i cant for critique read manuscripts off the screen)

there are a number of submissions that don't have names attached to them.  literally, i have no idea whose stories some of them are..

if there is a fluke and submissions go through without names, which seems to be happening, please at least sign the pages you submit.  give it a header, name and title (and even approx wordcount, which some of us started doing later on and is a nice addition)

here's an example of how to format your pages for workshopping:

http://chuckpalahniuk.net/workshop/read?type=t&id=437

hopefully that link ^^^^ will work for everyone

if not, i'll quickly write out an example:[/font]

[font=tahoma]Family L O V E

by johnathan.n.kabol

Approx.  200 words

HE WALKS FROM THE BAR, beer in hand. He chooses a table at the center of the room and sits in a chair. He looks up. The room bathes in the dry light of fluorescent bulbs. A warmth to the air and breathing is filtered through the smell of too many bodies.

Melissa appears as a flash at the entrance, and they must have caught eyes because she heads directly toward him. He doesn't stand. She touches his arm.

William, what're you doin here?

He offers no answer and she asks what he wants to do tonight.

I don't care, Melissa. He leers at her chest and chews his bottom lip. As long as I end up sucking on you, I really don't care how we get there.

Her pink lips thin, widened into a smile, she stares at him, her eyes like grey diamonds in the light.

She looks down at his zipper, says it's time to leave. When they were kids, their father taught them how to care for their own. A woman's fine and important, he'd say, but there's nothing quite like kin. Their father was all about safety and understanding. She adores having an older brother, but on some days, a lover is just more important.

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[font=courier]this is an example of a formatted submission, so when we read each others stories, we know who wrote it and it's clean and easy on the eyes.  the word count lets us know immediately what we're in for, we know who to contact:

also:

if you submit under a different name than you go by via the cult, put your pen-name/by-line under your "submitting" name

the point being, that i others can contact you with questions about a submission

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