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Welcome! Please stick around

You’ve entered a polity of literature: We’re here to support your writing. The eight Reader/Advisor/Editors (RAEs) at The GOAT PoL work on eighty to a hundred stories at any given time, and each one is unique. Writing is a slow unpredictable process—the process that we support is ambitious. It’s hard work and it will take time.

 

Writing pays terribly. It takes so long! Writers at The GOAT PoL might get just pennies-per-hour by the time they’re done. You’ll earn more working for the Amazon MechanicalTurk (AMT). Don’t expect fast money.

 

The story you send is the starting place for a guided writing process that can take days, weeks, or even months. Please DON’T send writing that bores you. You should be deeply interested in the story you send. Be sure the story interests you enough to stick around, work hard on it, and complete it.

 

A note on artificial intelligence (AI): AI can be useful, but it cannot write an interesting story alone. You are a much more interesting writer than AI. If you use AI, tell your RAE about it. Please don’t send us boring stories written only by AI. Send us your writing, and tell your RAE how you made it.

 

 

By clicking “close” I confirm that I am ready to stick around and work by writing and reading at The GOAT PoL.

Dear writer, our submissions were filled within one day of reopening them. The number of writers we must work with before reopening is substantial. With our sincere apology, we can’t accept new writing from you until we’ve worked with and published each of them. We will reopen our public submissions as soon as we can.

The good news is this means you can take time to read what others have written and published on The GOAT PoL. When you admire a story, you can let the writer know by sending a fan letter (just “click” on author’s name at the top of the story and choose “send a fan letter”). And—since you are a writer who wants to work with other writers—maybe you and they can get together to read each other’s new work and support each other as readers, advisors, or editors. Please do!

The GOAT PoL is an open invitation to write and read together in a “polity of literature.” Please be patient with us, do some reading and work with each other, while we pause and adapt to find the best way forward. We’ll be working on it and publishing as well and swiftly as we can.

Thanks again for your support and your patience. We look forward to working with you soon.

The GOAT PoL