WotC Seeking Your Setting Proposals (was "Big Wizard announcement")

[jester47]

Re: Really important!!!

All,

you must print out our PDF version of the submission agreement form. We cannot accept a printed version from another program (like MSWord).

If someone has already submitted and their is a problem due to any of the above we will contact you and give you the opportunity to correct your submission.

AV

Mr. Valtera

I can tell you right now that I have two problems with the submission already. I did not use the PDF and I did not clearly label my sections as I was going off the word document. Should I just send in another, or should I wait to be contacted? Thanks,

Aaron.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Re: Really important!!!

In addition - and this is critical- you must print out our PDF version of the submission agreement form. We cannot accept a printed version from another program (like MSWord).

AAAAAGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

I dropped my three submissions in the mail five minutes--five minutes--before I signed on and saw this. And yeah, I'd used the MSWord version of the form that was "packaged" with the template itself.

So when I'm contacted to fix the problem, will I need to resubmit the actual proposals and cover letters, or can I just send three release forms with a letter of explanation and trust that they'll be lined up with the proper proposals?

 

[Rasyr]

As free lancers the three who have their proposals reach the final round will have to take care of the taxes themselves. This is earned income, and so is subject to state (if any) and Federal income tax.

Side note: You would most likely receive a form 1099, which is similiar to a W-2 (note to those not from the US, these are wage earning reports which get filed with income tax form). Which means that your taxes on this money would be due the following April 15th.

 

[Spike Y Jones]

Will you, at any time, make the top ten one page submissions public (so that all us interested folks can see what the blind panel thought was interesting/unique enough tomake it into the top 10?

I don't think Anthony's noticed this question.

My guess is that, no, Wizards will not make the top 10 one-pagers public, because Wizards won't own the top 10 one-pagers. Whether those top 10 writers will want to post their entries will be up to them (but I'd hazard a guess that they wouldn't want to give any hints to their competition).

Spike Y Jones

 

[mirzabah]

Re: Re: Really important!!!

I can tell you right now that I have two problems with the submission already. I did not use the PDF and I did not clearly label my sections as I was going off the word document. Should I just send in another, or should I wait to be contacted?

Have a think about that for a moment...

What's it going to do their schedule if they have to contact each and every person who submitted a proposal that didn't quite follow the guidelines? It's already been made abundantly clear that if a proposal breaks the rules, it gets binned. End of story.

In other words, resubmit your proposal.

 

[Orcus]

Talk about putting the cart before the horse!

I can't believe there was a post about whether tax will be taken out of the check.

Clark

 

[Ghostwind]

They were being, shall we say, rather "optimistic."

 

[mirzabah]

Talk about putting the cart before the horse!

I can't believe there was a post about whether tax will be taken out of the check.

So I guess there's no point in asking whether or not they can make the cheque out to "Automobili Lamborghini"?

 

[jester47]

Re: Re: Re: Really important!!!

Have a think about that for a moment...

What's it going to do their schedule if they have to contact each and every person who submitted a proposal that didn't quite follow the guidelines? It's already been made abundantly clear that if a proposal breaks the rules, it gets binned. End of story.

In other words, resubmit your proposal.

Reread what he said above, there are two sources of information. One is a PDF, the other a word document. He said anyone using the word document will be contacted. However, because I used the template in the word document I wound up not folowing the directions as posted on the web page. I probably will be a typical case. But I have 2 weeks to clear it up, so I am not stressing it. In the wose case scenario I can make the 20 mile drive and hand it to someone. But I hope it will get cleared up before that. Still my submission has been revised and is now better than ever, so maybe I lucked out. We will see.

Aaron.

 

[kingpaul]

Talk about putting the cart before the horse!

What's wrong with having the horse push the cart?