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This week: Don't Shoot Yourself in the Foot! Edited by: Fyn  
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.~~Horace
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.~~Joseph Addison
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.~~Samuel Smiles
What happens when the guy who runs the reactor gets out of bed wrong or decides, for some reason, that he wants to override his instruction sheet some afternoon?~~David R. Brower
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Remember this?
Test
You have only three minutes to answer these questions.
1. Read everything before doing anything.
2. Put your name on the upper right hand corner of this paper.
3. Circle the word "name" in sentence two.
4. Draw five small squares in the upper left-hand corner of this paper.
5. Put an "x" In each square.
6. Put a circle around each square.
7. Sign your name under the title.
8. After the title write "yes, yes, yes".
9. Put a circle around each word In sentence no. 7.
10. Put an "x" in the lower left hand corner of this paper.
11. Draw a triangle around the "x" you just put down.
12. On the reverse side of this paper multiply 703 by 9805.
13. Draw a rectangle around the word "paper" in sentence number 4.
14. Call out your first name when you get to this point in your paper.
15. If you think you have followed directions up to this point In the test, call out "I have".
16. On the reverse side of the paper add 8950 and 9850.
17. Put a circle around your answer.
18. Count out loud In normal speaking voice backwards from ten to one.
19. Now that you have finished reading, do only steps one and two.
There is a reason we need to follow directions. They usually exist for a reason and someone or other has taken the time to write them out so that they can be followed. This applies when filling out mortgage applications, following a recipe, submitting a manuscript or entering a contest. The instructions are usually guidelines so that your manuscript or poem or application do not end up in a circular file or become the recipient of the delete key.
If a word count maximum is 2200 words, does it make sense that you should enter an item with 2700 words? Oh, silly me...of course it makes sense...maybe no one will run a word count, or maybe because this piece is so over the top extraordinary the powers that be will make an exception just for you.
NOT!
If a contest says you must keep an item in your port until judging is complete and you decide you need the space for something else, so that the judge takes the time to follow the link to find out that no such item exists any longer, how, may I ask, is the judge going to be able to read the piece and judge?
THEY CAN'T!
If you decide you don't want to give the requested information when applying for a job or a mortgage or a loan, are you likely to get said job, house or car?
NOPE!
Would you ever have gotten your driver's license if you decided the rules were for everyone else and sure, you can drive on the wrong side of the road?
SO WOULDN'T"T HAPPEN!
Why am I bringing all this up? Because I recently went through the judged items to assemble the WDC Anthology. Several folks whose work had been accepted and two who would have gotten an 'Editor's Pick' lost out because they did not follow directions and deleted submitted items from their ports.
That is just sad. Others submitted pieces that were way over the word limit. Great writing, but beyond the word limit. Frustrating.
As writers who are submitting pieces to contests on site and elsewhere, or who may be submitting entire manuscripts,
it is imperative to FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES without fail. Every guideline. Every direction. Otherwise the writer is wasting his time and the time of the folks at the other end. Not a good way to get work noticed or published.
On a far happier note, the overall quality of the submitted pieces was really excellent!! You can order your copy of the 2014 Writing.Com Anthology at:
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Bob retired  : applauds: Once again I have to say thank you to the editor of this newsletter. Poetry, poetic prose and prose poetry have a lot in common and mix well when you are writing your novel or short story. Thank you for a great NL.
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