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

[Tallow]

Re: Re: cookies? margins?

I'm using .75 inch margins because anything larger looks hideous to me. None-the-less, I think I'll be able to double-space everything with 10 pt. font. I'm feeling pretty good about being able to condense the highlights of a 20-year old setting down that tight.

I still have this nagging feeling that I'm leaving something out, but I'm countering that by not including even a single sentence that I don't think slaps the reader upside the head.

I've never submitted anything professionally before and I have to echo the thanks of others to the board members (and Anthony, of course). I'm still far from cocky about my submission, but at least I feel like I'll be competing on the basis of my skill and strength of ideas and not an instant DQ from sheer ignorance.

I know what you mean man. I've had to keep hitting myself to keep from second guessing myself, and trying to write what the panelists want to see. Just write what I know, do a good job, and hope that the idea is one that meets their fancy. I've had some good feedback on it from friends, so I guess the more I second guess myself, the more it becomes an over-edited piece of trash, rather than a creative expose.

Andy Christian

 

[edbonny]

doublespaced?

I'm using .75 inch margins because anything larger looks hideous to me. None-the-less, I think I'll be able to double-space everything with 10 pt. font. I'm feeling pretty good about being able to condense the highlights of a 20-year old setting down that tight...

Is doublespacing a requirement? A recommendation? Something always done for Dragon magazine submissions and thus done here? Is everyone doing it? I have actively searched this thread and the template for anything on doublespacing requirements and found nothing.

 

[Ghostwind]

New Rules For Submissions Revised and Clarified

Here is the text of the email that was sent to me that clarifies the new revisions to the submission process:

Steve – good questions. It is best if people go to our site and download the proposal in the PDF format, fill it out completely, then print it out and submit it to us in hardcopy. No need to burn to a CD-ROM or disk. The only change is that the document is now in a PDF format and not a word document. And, one proposal submission form per idea. The link is on the front page of the
Wizards’ home page.

Sorry for the confusion.
Don Williams
Public Relations Manager
Wizards of the Coast

This means exactly what I surmised in an earlier post and what Anthony said previously. Download, print out and sign the pdf version of the legal documentation included in the proposal. You then need to include that signed document along with your one page proposal and a cover letter containing your contact information. There is absolutely no need to burn a CD as was reported by GamingReport.com earlier.

I will post a further clarification on the single idea question as soon as I get an answer.

 

[Zulkir]

READ IMPORTANT!!!

All,

Our PR department sent out an erroneous e-mail late yesterday saying that you had to have a PDF file burned to CD (or some such wonkiness). Ignore it completely. Please let everyone know that it was an error on our PR department and it can be safely ignored.

All that they were supposed to say was that the Submission Agreement must be printed from the PDF version, but you guys already know that.

Help me out here folks I can't post this as far and wide as I would like I'm starting to get buried.

AV

 

[KDLadage]

oh dear...

...what if you already sent you submission (and, I suspect, it has already arrived) and you put teh whole thing together before there was a PDF to use... (I used the .doc file, printed and signed).

 

[Mercule]

Re: doublespaced?

Is doublespacing a requirement? A recommendation? Something always done for Dragon magazine submissions and thus done here? Is everyone doing it? I have actively searched this thread and the template for anything on doublespacing requirements and found nothing.

No my knowledge, no, it isn't a requirement. I can't even tell you if it's a good idea or not. I think that's a question Anthony has specifically avoided answering.

I was making the statement to illustrate how much I was able to condense my submission. I could have just as easily said "A half page."

 

[EvilPheemy]

Pats Zulkir gently on the head... there, there...

You have all my sympathy Anthony. I'm tempted to send you a firemen's helmet as a symbol of all the fires you've been assigned to put out w/regards to this project.

No, really... I'm lauging with you.

When all this is over, even if I don't win a dime, I'll buy you a beer just because you'll need it!

Now, back to those stacks of proposals! Schnell! Schnell!

 

[Parcher]

Folks:

It's not necessary to double-space your submissions. However, let me reiterate that it is *very* important to proofread them carefully. To a substantial extent, this part of the process is about your ability to follow directions.

On behalf of Anthony and myself, I wanted to compliment the people on this list and on other boards for your enthusiasm and support for this project. It's great to see the fantasy community so excited about something. We look forward to reading your submissions.

 

[Tom Cashel]

Peter, I'd like to join the others who have thanked you and Anthony for taking the time to post answers to questions here. It is much appreciated!

My partner and I are still fine-tuning our submission. We just had a very productive lunch hour going over the details. I'll tell you this much: it helps to be an Editor...

 

[Pallis]

thanks

I whole-heartedly agree on the thank you's. I'm amazed that AV and PArcher (and other Wizards folks I've missed) have read half the posts, let alone post so much. They must have as much enthusiasm for this as we do.

I'd like to also add my encouragement for Wizards to send out the 10-pager outline so that even if we don't make it to that stage, we can flesh out what we have. I know that I'd like to incorporate my submission ideas into my own campaign.

(insert smartass remark about PDF files and font sizes here)