Critter Notices
Critters is 30!
Last November, Critters turned 30 years old! Wow! Thanks so much to all of you, who've made it such a resounding success!
FEATURED BOOK
Critters Site Map
The master list of Critters pages you can visit...
- The Critters Home Page
- HELLLLLP! How to get help
- Send personal mail to the Critter Captain (include the current anti-spam keywords [click here for which])
- Search the site
What Critters is About
- What Critters is about
- News & Notices
- The message that started it all
- Sample critiques
- Humorous enticement to pros
- Nice things members have said about Critters
- The weekly Most Productive Critter award
- Privacy Policy
- Donate to help keep the minions happy
- Critters FAQ
Administrative Stuff
- How to Join
- How to Quit or go Inactive
- The Official Rules
- Many administrative functions
- Check your participation ratio
- Reset your participation ratio
- Forgot your password?
- Switch to another workshop
- List of email addresses that have bounced my email
- Set your email address & preferences
- Tell the Captain about an email alias
- List of recent critiques received per member
- Form for authors to report credit for a too late/short critique
About Members
- List of member bios
- Woohoo! Member accomplishments
- Report a Woohoo
- Meet the Critter Captain
- The Critter Captain's home page
- Submit your bio
Miscellaneous & General Resources
- Critiquing, writing, and SF resource links
- Thoughts on how to phrase critiques diplomatically
- More thoughts on how to phrase critiques, and why
- Thoughts on the (lack of!) Rules of Writing
- Locate or announce a local in-person critique group
- A Critters flyer suitable for distributing at cons
Forums
- About the discussion forums
- Links to the forums
- Why we have two forums
- Some thoughts on arguing courteously
Submission/Manuscript Stuff
- List of stories up for critique
- The submissions themselves
- Submit a piece to the queue for review (members only)
- How many crits each submission has so far
- Formatting ms. for submission
- More on formatting ms. for submission
- More on formatting ms. for submission
- Replace or Remove a submission in the queue
- Is it SF, F, or H?
- Change genre of a submission in the queue
- Master list of Genre codes (if emailing submissions)
- Master list of Format codes (if emailing submissions)
- Submit a critique to Critters (members only)
- Check manuscript for being in proper format
- Reformat mss. for readability when critiquing
- Use an MPC to bump your submission to the top
- Retrieve the critiques for your submission if you missed any
Novel Reading & Large Project "RFDR" Stuff
- Information about the Dedicated Reviewers program for novels and large projects
- Official dedicated reviewer rules
- Form to report a dedicated reviewer is done
- List of open RFDRs
Fun & Misc.
- Story Idea Seed Garden - get or share story ideas
- The Bonsai Story Tree Generator
- Babel Stories — collaborative fiction writing
- Best Ever Written reader's poll (reading list; vote for your favorites)
- Calculate what stamps to use for mailing a manuscript
- Offers alternate display formats for visually impaired members
- Own a square inch of the real South Park
- Hate nuisance fees? Say No to the Feeconomy (Warning, humorous fees may apply)
- How cure bad customer service
- The "Atlanta Nights" PublishAmerica Sting operation
- What do you want the future to hold? Vote for your favorite wishes for the future
- Random character name and attribute generator
- Pull random entries from a list; or randomly shuffle a list
- Time-limited Creative Commons licenses
- Free financial tool your Critter Captain wrote to make sure you get the best type of loan
- Aburt's 'iFiction' project — payment collection tool for authors
- Non-profit that Aburt started to help save the planet
- Read your Critter Captain's fiction
- Read about and announce new projects (yes, including yours)
- Your Critter Captain's other projects that might interest you
