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Editor's Picks - March

Greetings Family!

We apologize for the belated Editor's Picks blog post! We have been going through the Valentine's Contestants! (Announcement coming!) We have gone through stories from February 15th to March 2nd and are excited to announce the winners of the Editor's Choice Awards.  

Miracle After Storyis moving, emotional continuation of the Miracle Valentine's submission. The Salt Clock puts a different spin on the concept of time, in a powerful, thought-provoking and sentimental autobiography. ShockWave ETERNAL is a well-written, exciting fantasy cell phone novel. Give Me Love presents deep themes of love and issues in relationships in an eloquent one-shot short story piece. Impressions paints day to day ordinary experiences most wouldn't think about, in a profound, soothing, detailed way. The Crimson Queen is another work from the writer that showcases a fantasy novel of beautiful, sophisticated writing.

Miracle After Story by: Koinuu

THE SALT CLOCK, Minutes of Your Soul> by: Nightingale Nina

ShockWave ETERNAL by: Yukimura Yuuki

Give Me Love by: pouralittlesalt

Impressions by: nashipo

The Crimson Queen by: Count the Moons in Jupiter's Sky

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving staff feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between March 3rd and March 16th!

Editor's Choice - February 2014 Part 2

Greetings Writers & Readers!

Welcome to Part 2 of our February Editor's Picks. We have gone through stories from February 1st to February 15th and are excited to announce the winners of the Editor's Choice Awards.  

Paintbrush is delicate cell phone novel with a lot of sweet innocent love but delivered artfully (pun intended) with careful minimalism.  My Favourite Sin is a thrilling story that puts you on the edge of your seat through mysterious, potentially twisted character interactions, and unfolding playful conflict. [unCOveREd] presents a deeply existential, dystopian sci-fi concept that is refreshing and unique to read. Planeterria reads like poetry, romantic and sentimental, a perfect read for Valentine's month. A Daughter of Light is a haunting but fun story with a natural narrative flow while maintaining lively engagement with the reader. Where Loyalties Lie is a well-written fantasy prose, realistic and full of details.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Paintbrush by: Divlovescandy

My Favourite Sin (Trilogy)> by: Nora Wright

[unCOveREd] by: Wren

Planeterria by: Chizumochi

A Daughter of Light (A Light onto the World) by: Price Girls

Where Loyalties Lie by: 

Remember that new stories should have 1000 words or more to be considered for an Editor's Choice award. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving staff feedback on your work. For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between February 15th and March 1st!

Editor's Picks - May 1st

Hello Textnovel family!

Here is the latest list! We are so proud of the quality that our members exhibit all the time. It is always hard to pick winners, but congratulations to our Editor's Picks! Amazing writing! Please support our winners by reading their work and giving them feedback. And remember new stories should have 1000 words and over to be considered for Editor's Choice. You can also upgrade your story to a Premium or Featured Story to increase your chances of getting picked and receiving professional feedback on your work!

Here's the line-up: (This list is in alphabetical order)

Faceless by: ArtistVisionaryLover

The Fringe of District 24 「二十四丁目の周辺」 by: takatsu

A Highlander's Hope by: Laurie Sorensen

The Relationship Contract by: simone moore

Trapped with a Call「コールでトラップ」 by: lovely09

For the next round, we'll select from stories posted between May 1st and May 15th! Keep up the great work!

Editor's Choice!

Hello Textnovel family once again!

Congratulations to our Editor's Picks this issue who have demonstrated great writing quality, narrative style, plotlines and well developed characters (alphabetical order):

 

Broken Dreams by christopher shaw

Half-Written Wishes by John Doe

Honey Moon Marmalade ⌊蜂蜜 ムーン マーマレード⌉ by Clover

I Did it For You by Chevy Rose

Starwort - the Adventures of a Space Bum by C. J. Abbot

The Soupy Team Vs. Project Yggdrasil by Serpent Feathers

 

Make sure to show them some loving! :)

Thank you also to our new volunteer Editors who have helped keep an eye out for Textnovel gems and contributed to picking the winners this time!

We are glad to have people on board and interested in helping out.

 

For Editor's Picks next time, I would like to remind you that we keep an eye out for all works on Textnovel. However, it is important that stories have 1000 words or more for it to be considered, so although we see many great stories it is sometimes unfortunate that there is not enough total words for us to make a decision! We require this because it gives us a better idea of the plot and character development and the consistency of style and quality, etc. So keep it up and keep writing!

 

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As a reminder, once again we are open for volunteers!

 

1) We are recruiting:

    - EDITORIAL TEAM: we are looking for a few more members to join our Editorial Board. The main role would be to read stories on Textnovel with certain criteria in mind and help pick award winners such as the bi-weekly/monthly Editor's Choice, as well as other future awards. Another role would be to support the community by posting encouraging comments and feedback. Towards the future, our editorial board will also review and edit manuscripts prior to publishing processes. (If you are an editor with professional job experience, please let us know, as we would love your help - as an Editor-in-Chief perhaps)

    - FORUM MODERATORS: to keep the forums clean and alive with posts and ideas for threads, as well as encouraging members to come to the forum from the main site.

    - GENRE CAPTAINS: Receive a genre captain badge and be in charge of your genre of choice much like a book club. Interact, support, encourage fellow writers of the same genre; manage your own section in the forum with activities, fun threads, discussions and more; take care of your genre family well!

     - BLOGGING TEAM: If you have a passion for writing just about anything, let us know. We will be starting up newsletters and blogs once again soon as we are rebuilding our team. To recap, we had sections such as advice and tips for writers, life or personal stories that could inspire others, news articles about the publishing industry, interviews with published authors or textnovel members among other topics. We just ask for commitment and self-initiative to submit articles regularly (monthly or bi-weekly).

Let us know if you are interested by sending an email to info@textnovel.com with these details: Name, Role Interested, Why you are interested/Why you would fit the role, How long you have been on the site

Thanks!

 

More to come! Stay tuned!

 

Textnovel Team

Editor's Choice!

Hello Textnovel family!

Although updates on Textnovel seemed to have slowed a bit, not to worry, we are getting the ball rolling once again and we are definitely making plans behind the scenes! We appreciate your patience with us :)

First, without further ado, congratulations to our Editor's Picks (eight this time as a bonus) who have demonstrated such beautiful and powerful writing with great original content (alphabetical order):

 

Banned! by Shadowolfhunter

DEEP BLUE by Karra Christina

Good Morning Darkness by Blakevich

Lysander Stokes by C. J. Abbot

Puppet Show by skybluesky

Survival of the Fittest by Juliette Hart

Tengoku no Hana by Juria

Wicqued Truth by Aevlex

 

Make sure to show them some loving! :) Congratulations and wish you inspiration and all the best in your writing dreams!

 

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Now time for some updates. The Team is indeed working to get things done however we need a little help!

 

1) If you are experiencing site issues such as slow loads or time outs or even errors, let us know by shooting us an email at info@textnovel.com We are aware that there are some issues and are looking at fixing it and improving our system. We thank you for your patience.

 

2) We are recruiting:

    - EDITORIAL TEAM: we are looking for more members to join our Editorial Board. The main role would be to read stories on Textnovel with certain criteria in mind and help pick award winners such as the bi-weekly/monthly Editor's Choice, as well as other future awards. Another role would be to support the community by posting encouraging comments and feedback. Towards the future, our editorial board will also review and edit manuscripts prior to publishing processes.

    - FORUM MODERATORS: to keep the forums clean and alive with posts and ideas for threads, as well as encouraging members to come to the forum from the main site.

    - GENRE CAPTAINS: Receive a genre captain badge and be in charge of your genre of choice much like a book club. Interact, support, encourage fellow writers of the same genre; manage your own section in the forum with activities, fun threads, discussions and more; take care of your genre family well!

     - BLOGGING TEAM: If you have a passion for writing just about anything, let us know. We will be starting up newsletters and blogs once again soon as we are rebuilding our team. To recap, we had sections such as advice and tips for writers, life or personal stories that could inspire others, news articles about the publishing industry, interviews with published authors or textnovel members among other topics. We just ask for commitment and self-initiative to submit articles regularly (monthly or bi-weekly).

Let us know if you are interested by sending an email to info@textnovel.com with these details: Name, Role Interested, Why you are interested/Why you would fit the role, How long you have been on the site

Thanks!

 

3) We are also looking at restructuring the contest systems and introducing smaller fun mini-contests as well - such as writing contests based on a theme, or one sentence, as well as other great ideas. Let us know if you have any ideas or would like to help out with the Textnovel Team

 

Alright, that's it for now! Please stay tuned for more to come.

 

Textnovel Team

Editor's Choice Mar 4th!

 

New Editor's Choices are up!

Congratulations to all our winners who all were selected for their quality in writing, originality, writing style, storyline concept and publishing potential! Great work!

 

Below are the Editor's Choices in alphabetical order:

Abandoned~The ones the world forgot to love~ Forever Midnight

Arpeggio Athena Lyso

IT'S A SALAD BOWL OF FREAKS Ryan Brad

My Lips Are Stained Red SoulChica95

PERCY'S SHADOWS S.N. Parish

The Rugby Match F. Jean Thomas

The Time of Cherry Blossoms Lady Charlotte

 

Congratulations! Never stop writing!

- Textnovel Team

 

Textnovel Live Chatroom + Updates

Hi, this is Takatsu.

I started an unofficial textnovel chatroom. http://tinychat.com/textnovel 

It has optional features for live webcam and mic broadcast; desktop and whiteboard sharing tools; even a capability of watching user posted youtube content together as well (if anyone wants to use it). But in general it is a free chatroom for all of us.

Just log in with FB, Twitter, Myspace or just choose a nickname and get started.

I will try to be on there as much as possible. Follow my twitter http://twitter.com/taka_chan and Textnovel's twitter http://twitter.com/textnovel if you want to know when I invite people!

It's a great way for the textnovel community to interact with one another and maybe in the future we can hold author interviews, workshops, discussions and so forth. Some of us have already been using it. Join us and let's make the Textnovel community a vibrant lively place!

I may also be looking for Chatroom Moderator help. First, I have to figure out how to assign moderators though!

 

 

Updates:

-Our mobile site now has writing/editing functions! Join our beta testing team to try it out! Email info@textnovel.com with the subject: Textnovel Beta Tester, your pen name, your mobile device model.

-Please see our February Newsletter: Click Here (Textnovel is recruiting help / Interview with Shannon Delany / Writers' Tips: Writer's Block / Video Contest / Forum Collaboration and Share Corner / Twitter Question of the Day / Seeking Published Authors and more)

 

 

-Takatsu

Update: No maintenance

Update: The issue has been fixed already. All systems nominal and functioning as usual. :D

Textnovel servers will be down for minor maintenance 12:30AM - 1:30AM on Sunday morning, Mountain Time. We apologize for any inconvenience. Should be back up and running for all of Sunday.

-Textnovel Team

Editor's Choice Feb 15th!

 

Happy Valentines to all of our Textnovellers!

Congratulations to all our winners who all were selected for their quality in writing, originality, writing style, storyline concept and publishing potential! Great work!

 

Below are the Editor's Choices in alphabetical order:

Airships & Alchemy - K.A. Laity

Blind Faith - Kimberley Reeves

Call To War - Michelle Markey Butler

Enchanted with you - ergelina

Eyesore - Michelle Markey Butler

Father - DouglasClarke

The Luzhang Bridges

 

Congratulations! Never stop writing!

 

 

Updates:

-Newsletter has been sent out. Please comment below if you haven't received it. View an online copy here: February Issue Please check it out and read!

-Volunteer and Get involved! See newsletter for details.

-Mobile Site is moving along, looking for beta testers! See newsletter for details.

 

 

-Textnovel Team

We are recruiting help! Join the Team!

Textnovel is in need of YOUR help! Opportunities are available for the entire Textnovel community.

1) Blog/Article Contributions
2) Forum Moderators
3) Beta Testers

Here are the details:

 

1) Blog/Article Contributions

We are looking for dedicated writers to join our blogging team covering a range of subjects, posting on a regular basis (see below for a few examples). We also take article submissions if you are not able to officially join the team. Articles will be written on an ongoing basis (until we have a regular schedule), so please keep an eye out for posts!

If interested, please contact info[at]textnovel and provide the following:

Email Subject: Textnovel Blog Team
Info: Pen name on Textnovel, email address, reason you are interested, qualifications/experience if any

Email Subject: Blog Article Submission
Info: Summary of your article. Attach or paste your article in the email. Make sure to include "by (pen name)".

 

Subjects:

News/Reports - The latest news and happenings around the world that have to do with writing or literature. We're especially looking for interesting and unique topics. Keep your eyes open! Anything goes -- the newest eBook readers or gadgets, rave and popular movie adaptations, etc.

Writers' Tips - Advice and passionate rants for fellow writers on various topics. What are your experiences as a writer and what are some ways to deal with problems or situations we all face?

Book Reviews/Author Interviews - An opportunity to review the latest books you've read and make recommendations to the Textnovel Community. Under this subject we will also be holding interviews or articles on authors and their work. This section is mainly for published works and authors. To recommend Textnovel stories, please head on over to the forum! Sharing Corner

Life of a Writer - From time to time we will also post about our lives, our thoughts, our feelings and what we go through as writers. A personal, passionate discussion of anything and everything. Perhaps it may serve as inspiration and support for fellow writers who face the same things.

Other - There may be more subjects that can be added as we go on. Let us know if you have any suggestions or if your article submission belongs in a different category!

 

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2) Forum Moderators

Textnovel Forum needs help. We notice that many of our members aren't aware of the forum! It is an awesome experience to share, connect and support fellow writers on Textnovel. Textnovel isn't just a static site but a network and community as well. In order to revamp the forum and increase our activity, we are looking for Forum Moderators.

Some Responsibilities:

- Maintain, organize, enforce rules, order and structure for the forum. (You may be assigned to a certain section)

- Connect with members to get them involved in the forum. Invite and welcome new comers, be active in different threads, listen to opinions and feedback from members.

- Create new threads and innovative ideas that will boost interaction and the level of fun for all members.

- Encourage a friendly, helpful, supportive, caring atmosphere for all.

Later, possible opportunity of working with the Textnovel Team in a position similar to a "Community Leader."

 

Contact us at info[at]textnovel.com with the following:

Email Subject: Forum Moderator
Info: Pen name, age, when you joined Textnovel, reason for your interest/why you will be a good moderator, qualifications/experience you have with forums/online communities.

 

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3) Beta Testers

We have been working on a mobile site as you know! Things are coming together. We will need a group of users to test the mobile site and report any bugs/glitches to the Team. (Just note certain pages are not finished. Keep an eye out for actual errors/glitches that shouldn't be happening based on your best judgement.) Later on, beta testers may have the opportunity to join testing for other new projects/developments.

Contact info[at]textnovel.com if interested:

Email Subject: Beta Tester
Info: Pen name. Brand and model of mobile device.

 

That's it for now! There will be more opportunities in the future for members, so stay tuned. Lots is happening in the near future for Textnovel and all of our community.

If you are interested, please do not hesitate to contact us! Once again, it's info[at]textnovel.com

Thanks for your support and interest in Textnovel.

 

-Textnovel Team