This place I intend to submit a story to says that they're open until December 31st, or until they receive 200 submissions.
This is SO MUCH MORE stressful for writers than they realize. It's a themed issue, so nobody has a backlog piece they've polished to completion. And now we have to game out how much polish we can afford to give our submissions, knowing that we'll be iced out if we wait too long. As a result, they have basically guaranteed that they'll receive only the 200 fastest submissions, not the 200 best. Nobody wins here.
Sigh. Back to frantically churning out my draft.
