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

[MavrickWeirdo]

Where/When to post

I'm planning to post my 1 page as a seperate thread on the "Plots" message board, on July 4th. If we each did that we might crash the boards yet

 

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7. Entrant [That's you. Your name must be typed in the lower left corner of the page and nowhere else.]

If all you had to do was have...

#7. Name so-and-so

Then why would they bother saying "Your name must be typed in the lower left corner of the page and nowhere else?" Especially if you did them in order. Wouldn't it already be in the lower left hand corner? Or did they mean they want it slightly separate, so that when they view them blindly they can fold the names over easily?

 

[Ashtal]

Re: Re: Format

No annoying name-caller, look at the template on the site. There are 7 clearly labeled sections that must be done in order, not 6.

He may be working with the sheet I had, printed out early on, which only has numbers 1-6 in the template, with the stiplulation about the name mentioned in a paragraph below.

*goes back to the corner with her Dunce Cap on*


Ashtal

 

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Re: Re: Re: Format

He may be working with the sheet I had, printed out early on, which only has numbers 1-6 in the template, with the stiplulation about the name mentioned in a paragraph below.

*goes back to the corner with her Dunce Cap on*


Ashtal

So you mean the one I mentioned in that earlier post? The one we CAN'T use?

 

[Tallow]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Format

So you mean the one I mentioned in that earlier post? The one we CAN'T use?

Actually I'm refering to both of them. They numbered the sections for our convenience so that we would know how many sections were needed, and/or steps were needed to complete a finished product.

All they wanted was 6 clearly labeled sections and your name at the bottom. If you want to call the name section 7, then by all means do so, but that's just silly semantics and hits right to the point about you overanalyzing this.

The format is 6 clearly labeled sections and your name at the bottom. That's it, its that simple. Stop making it confusing.

Andy Christian

 

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Format

Actually I'm refering to both of them. They numbered the sections for our convenience so that we would know how many sections were needed, and/or steps were needed to complete a finished product.

All they wanted was 6 clearly labeled sections and your name at the bottom. If you want to call the name section 7, then by all means do so, but that's just silly semantics and hits right to the point about you overanalyzing this.

Like I said earlier, look at the official template.

The format is 6 clearly labeled sections and your name at the bottom. That's it, its that simple. Stop making it confusing.

Andy Christian

How am I making it confusing? You are by giving people the wrong info. There are 7 clearly labeled sections, not 6.

 

[Ashtal]

I guess so - my understanding was that the PDF of the Submission Agreement was to be used, not the Word document. I have done so, even with the first ill-fated submission.

The template is changed. The original has only 6 numbered questions, with a paragraph following saying, "put your name on the left-hand side on the bottom." The new information on the web page has it as its own number, #7.

I thought the Word/PDF thing was about something else entirely. If you have a contractual agreement, which the Submission Agreement is, in Word you can alter it before printing it. You can't really do that with a PDF. It never occured to me that the template of what was required would be changed, albeit minorly and regardless, it was still my boneheadedness that resulting in missing the "put your name on the left-hand side on the bottom" which appears in both, just in slightly different ways. Again, I'm thankful I have the opportunity to correct my mistake.

That said ... *whew* I hope the next time they do a contest like this, they release the rules, the files, whatever, in its final form FIRST. My personal boneheadedness aside, having volumunous FAQs and tinkerings with the wording and such after the contest is announced does not make things clear.

 

[reddist]

Wow....

Open your header/footers, put your name in the footer, left justified, and you're done.

I mean really.

-Reddist

 

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(1)

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

 

[Tallow]

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

Ok, I'm not going to argue with you about this anymore, because you just aren't understanding what I'm saying and you are misquoting parts of what I've said. You are arguing semantics. Its that simple. As for the PDF vs. Word documents... AV also said in a later post that Jenny in their legal department said either would be ok as long as they were unmodified.

The #7 from the WotC website is just a number. You don't have to number it on your submission. I've read and reread every single post in this entire thread. Trust me.

Andy Christian