Site Map

The master list of pages you can visit...

• The 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 is About

• What is about
• News & Notices
• The message that started it all
• Sample critiques
• Humorous enticement to pros
• Nice things members have said about
• The weekly Most Productive Critter award
• Privacy Policy
• Donate to help keep the minions happy
• 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

  Market Information

• Black holes -- Market Response Time Tracker
• Dark Matter -- Sightings of infrequently publishing markets
• Shining Stars -- Nice things said about editors
• Aburt's market list

  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
• List of other known on-line workshops
• 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 (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
• 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