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Still waiting on a reply/rejection as well.

I checked out the thread on Warseer earlier. Not even a handful seemed to have submitted anything. One interesting point that one poster made was that he might have been rejected because his writing did not meet every single writing principle that had been outlined in the briefs. He complained that there was not enough words for him to do so. A few replied that that was probably the reason he was rejected, that those that had found a way to meet every single writing principle in the words allotted were probably the ones not rejected.

I confess that when I saw the principles, I did not think them optional. I considered them guidelines for my writing the briefs.

It definitely wasn't easy getting all the principles in there, but it is what was asked for - they obviously know that it is a short amount of writing, and if you can't be brief, well there's your problem.

I have had a few dudes pm me their stories, and they are good enough to wonder where my rejection email is

I felt that the guidelines where essentially "givens". They all seemed like very obvious things, when writing in the 40k universe. To be honest, I didn't even read them through until after my two drafts were done. No rejection letter yet, and I'm very happy with the drafts I submitted.

 Squidmanlolz wrote:
I felt that the guidelines where essentially "givens". They all seemed like very obvious things, when writing in the 40k universe. To be honest, I didn't even read them through until after my two drafts were done. No rejection letter yet, and I'm very happy with the drafts I submitted.

I paid extra attention to including the names of building kits in my story after reading those guidelines (for example the "Manufactorum").

I also smiled at the line "characters must be flawed, but awesome!"

Yep, still waiting for a reply.

I did pay special attention that every character and vehicle was identifiable as a GW product, though one of my briefs featured a Thunderhawk.

In my first brief, I made sure to identify the assault marines with their jump packs. The main character was a veteran sergeant and I did give him his gear: chainsword, plasma pistol, and melta bombs. And I mentioned parts of his power armor, specifically a greave and a pauldron. The orks were in their trukks and had choppa and slugga at hand, but then since this was from a SM POV, I had to change that to trucks, cleaver, and pistol. I was not happy that I had to change "nob" to "ork mob leader." Those were two more words I could have used elsewhere. The only location I mentioned was a spaceport.

In my second brief, I didn't have as much. I mentioned the scouts wore camo-cloaks. The sergeant gave the briefing using a strategium table, so there was a hololith and that the was data provided by long-range augur probes. I did mention a Thunderhawk (for exfil) and that some of the natural defenses of the location were reinforced by ferrocrete. I wanted to use the phrases "hive city" and "planetary governor" but I couldn't find the words to cut.

Tomorrow will make a week. I'm kind of on the cusp of "well, I haven't been rejected yet" and "are they even going to reply?"

It's been 12 days since I sent in my briefs. I'm really hoping that tomorrow's the day they start sending out acceptance replies. It took GW 8 days to reply to my initial application. After this week, I'll probably give up hope of hearing back from GW. Ho Hum

So who is going to jump on the grenade and ask them when they are going to provide feedback?

Bear in mind it's Easter weekend, so their office has probably been empty for the last few days.

It's juvenile, but waiting is making me antsy. I just want them to pull the trigger.

Just got to be patient guys.

 hungryp wrote:
Bear in mind it's Easter weekend, so their office has probably been empty for the last few days.

Yeah, one, it's a holiday weekend, and two,since they pulled down the ad despite initially stating it had an indefinite duration, I imagine that they recieved a lot more good submissions then they were expecting.

 hungryp wrote:
Bear in mind it's Easter weekend, so their office has probably been empty for the last few days.

It seems at least some of them are working today, though - my order got shipped this morning!

 Dicrel Seijin wrote:
One interesting point that one poster made was that he might have been rejected because his writing did not meet every single writing principle that had been outlined in the briefs.

If he didn't follow the brief there will be no 'might' about it.

He also had a couple of immediate weak points that leapt out at me, and if I saw them, I'd expect someone seriously critiquing them would've too.

 .Mikes. wrote:

 Dicrel Seijin wrote:
One interesting point that one poster made was that he might have been rejected because his writing did not meet every single writing principle that had been outlined in the briefs.

If he didn't follow the brief there will be no 'might' about it.

Like I said, I didn't think them optional. It never occurred to me that they were. I'm just paraphrase what he said. I agree with you that that was the reason why.

One of the best pieces of advice I'd ever been given was: "Follow all the directions given." And this was from a magazine editor. The magazine she worked for received thousands of submissions monthly, and the staff looked for any reason to not to have to read a submission. She said that not following every single direction in regards to a cover letter and formatting was an easy disqualification.

I broke the rules in my original submission. I went over the word limit and also spoke about White Dwarf, and got accepted with no qualms.

I didn't break the rules for the second round though.

Second round?

The test brief writing, I presume.

Yeah, by second round I meant the two story submission.

Well, I had a dream last night in which I received an acceptance email that involved me writing pieces for an Eldar and Dark Eldar Codex.
Sadly, still no replies from GW...

On the plus side, no one's come in to say that they were accepted! It's probably just a really lengthy process.

Sometime this week, I guess. If they're giving out rejection letters, then I've got one week until I hear back from them.

And I'm at two weeks without a response.

Some in the Warseer thread are in the same situation of having to just wait with no word.

Oh well, keeping my fingers crossed.

Whoops, I was counting from my first email, not from when I sent in the briefs. Still two weeks for me too. Man, we all sent our stuff in within about a week of each other otherwise I'd ask if an earlier submission had reached one month without a rejection letter.

I submitted the 25/03/2015

It's now 14/04/2015 and still no response.

Submitted on 24/03/2015.
Still waiting. Anybody willing to bite the bullet and ask GW when we can expect a reply?

I submitted mine on March 20th... so I'm coming up on a month with no rejection or acceptance email.

The listing stated that they would respond to successful applicants. I assume that means that if you don't receive a reply, you aren't getting hired. That being said, I have no idea how long the process will take.

Interesting point Millicant, what are the odds that there are no successful applicants from any forum?