{"id":10957,"date":"2008-02-09T21:53:48","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T05:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/02\/09\/10957.html"},"modified":"2008-02-09T21:53:48","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T05:53:48","slug":"submission-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/02\/09\/submission-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Submission errors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The past couple of weeks have seen a marked increase in mistakes on submissions.<\/p>\n<p>We've seen more mistakes than usual in almost every part of our submission form.  At least a couple of authors have done each of the following in the past couple weeks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Entered a byline in the form that doesn't match the byline on the story itself. (Sometimes this takes the form of entering the story title in the byline box.)<\/li>\n<li>Entered an incorrect email address.<\/li>\n<li>Entered a story title that doesn't match the title on the story itself.<\/li>\n<li>Entered a wordcount that isn't anywhere close to the story's actual wordcount.<\/li>\n<li>Sent a cover letter that was clearly intended to go some other venue.<\/li>\n<li>Sent an old draft of the story instead of the current version.<\/li>\n<li>Sent a story that we've previously rejected.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not to mention, of course, people submitting via email attachment, which has never been allowed and is explicitly prohibited in our guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>I know people make mistakes, and most of the authors have been apologetic when asked about what they intended. Any one of those individual mistakes is no problem. But I'm getting a little frustrated with the total number of mistakes we're seeing.<\/p>\n<p>I know, of course, that adding more text does not actually get people to follow directions better or make fewer mistakes. But I've nonetheless added a reminder on the submission form, right above the Submit button, that authors should double-check everything they're entering. I doubt it'll actually help, but it made me feel better.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose the fact that I find it comforting to write instructions made it inevitable that I would become a tech writer.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The past couple of weeks have seen a marked increase in mistakes on submissions. We&#8217;ve seen more mistakes than usual&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strange-horizons"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}