Well, it’s the last contest of the year, and I’m excited about this one. I’m busy writing my NaNoWriMo project so I’ll just get to the details.
Here’s how it’s going down …
On December 8th post the first 250 words of your finished, or not quite finished, manuscript (any genre) to your blogs. This contest is about voice–whether or not your character’s voice matches his or her’s age. So if you mention the age or school grade in the first 250 words, please edit it out or block it out for this contest. Don’t list the genre or title on your posts.
From December 8th-9th hop around each others’ blogs and try to guess the age of the character, give critiques, or praise. Revise your entries, if you want, and email them to me by midnight (EST) December 10th. If you want, you may skip the blogfest/critique portion of this contest and just enter the contest. I will have a post on December 8th on how to format your entries and the new email address to send to.
A panel of judges will choose the top twenty entries for the semi-finalist round, which will be posted to my blog site, so if you don’t want your entry posted, don’t enter the contest. The winners will be chosen from the semi-finalists by our fantabulous guest judge.
And our guest judge is …
Gabriela Lessa is an editor, literary agent assistant, writer, blogger, journalist, Brazilian, insomniac and word nerd. In addition to being an Associate Editor at Turquoise Morning Press and an assistant at a major New York-based literary agency, she works independently to offer editing and consulting for authors. Her work is to make manuscripts shine! Check out her reasonable editorial and consultant rates here. She’s simply great! Now, I wish I could enter *pouts*.
And, of course, we have prizes …
1st place – Edit of first 30 pages + 25% off any services they want to hire
2nd place – Edit of first 20 pages + 20% off any services
3rd place – Edit of first 10 pages + 15% off
3rd place – Edit of first 10 pages + 15% off
So what are you waiting for? Sign up now!
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48 Comments
1000th.monkey · November 18, 2011 at 10:39 am
Sounds fun 🙂
Charity Bradford · November 18, 2011 at 10:42 am
woot! Great opportunity. Thanks and I can’t wait to get a peak at everyone’s new wips. That sounded sort of creepy. I really didn’t mean it that way. LOL
Jenny Kaczorowski · November 18, 2011 at 11:05 am
I can’t wait to see what others think!
Cecilia M. · November 18, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Oooh, this is pretty cool. Can’t wait.
Brenda Drake · November 18, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Yay! So happy to see you all joining in – it should be fun! <3
K. Turley (Clutzattack) · November 18, 2011 at 4:17 pm
I like playing this game in real life when I ask strangers to guess my age. (And of course, I always wonder if they’re padding it one way or the other because they don’t want to hurt my feelings.)
Sophia Chang · November 18, 2011 at 4:39 pm
Great contest Brenda 🙂 But aaaah you turned your full feed off? Can you pretty please turn it back on again so we can read your lovely posts?
carrieannebrownian · November 18, 2011 at 8:01 pm
If the opening mentions the MC is in high school or college but not the grade or level, would that have to be blurred out as well?
Brenda Drake · November 18, 2011 at 9:44 pm
If your novel opens with your character being in a school setting then that’s okay. Just no ages or grade levels. I don’t want the judges to have any hints.
meradeth · November 19, 2011 at 5:08 pm
Looking forward to this!!
L'Aussie · November 20, 2011 at 7:07 pm
Hi Brenda. Gave you a shout out on my latest post.
Denise
S. L. Hennessy · November 21, 2011 at 12:04 am
Can’t wait 🙂
Stephanie · November 21, 2011 at 8:09 am
This sounds super fun!!!!! Thanks!!
Taryn · November 21, 2011 at 10:46 am
Oooo, how unique!
writeidea · November 21, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Entering anything like this is a first for me. Wonder what age people will think for my character. The results could be interesting.
Amanda the Aspiring · November 21, 2011 at 7:57 pm
Very cool idea for a contest! Interested to see the results! =)
Jamie Corrigan · November 21, 2011 at 7:59 pm
This is an awesome contest, Brenda! Now to decide which ms to use! 🙂
Karen lee Hallam · November 22, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Sound like a Great contest. Especially since I’m reworking and probably over working my first page. Thanks! I will share.
Vicki Tremper · November 22, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Sounds like fun. Keep plugging away at NaNo! You CAN do it!
Lindz Pagel · November 22, 2011 at 4:43 pm
Great idea. I’m in.
Heather Webb · November 28, 2011 at 11:52 am
Sounds fun! Looking forward to reading everyone’s pages. 🙂
Brenda Drake · November 28, 2011 at 2:46 pm
I’m so excited to see you all joining in on the contest! Can’t wait to see the entries! <3
Robin Weeks · November 28, 2011 at 8:10 pm
I love your contests. 🙂 Will there be another linkey list for us to put our actual post addresses on?
S. L. Hennessy · November 28, 2011 at 10:53 pm
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Laura Chapman · November 30, 2011 at 9:04 am
This sounds like a great contest. Thanks for offering it.
lyle and julia · November 30, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Wonderful idea! I’m excited to read all the entries and start guessing.
Deborah Oster Pannell · December 1, 2011 at 8:42 am
Ha ha! Great idea… I’m in!
T. Drecker · December 1, 2011 at 11:52 am
This is a great idea…. Can’t wait until the 8th!
Marie Gilbert · December 1, 2011 at 7:02 pm
This sounds like fun, and I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s entries
Brenda Drake · December 2, 2011 at 8:01 am
We’re getting so close – can’t wait!
@Robin I’ll have to change the link for you when I post the announcement post. I’ll have an email to send to for those who want to change their URLs.
S. Kyle Davis · December 2, 2011 at 8:21 am
This sounds like a lot of fun. I’ll definitely have to do this.
Ms. Snip · December 2, 2011 at 8:53 am
Can’t wait to read all the entries!
crapfiction · December 2, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Excited for this contest! I always learn more about myself as a writer when I read from others, and get/give great feedback.
amy kennedy · December 2, 2011 at 10:43 pm
I wasn’t going to do this, yet, here I am…doing this. You just made it sound so “you should really do this!” So, I did. Yikes.
Emi Gayle · December 4, 2011 at 7:27 am
Great blog hop and contest! Found it on a friend’s site. 🙂
Sharon Howard · December 4, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Thanks for this, my first time doing any kind of contest, and first ever WIP! exciting! 🙂
Francesca Zappia · December 6, 2011 at 1:43 pm
This sounds great!
Kelly Andrews · December 6, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Sounds like a cool contest!
Brenda Drake · December 6, 2011 at 7:41 pm
Just a few more days and I’m soooooo excited! Thanks all for joining the contest! <3
Sharon Bayliss · December 6, 2011 at 11:32 pm
Thanks for the great contest. I just added my link.
Hope Roberson · December 7, 2011 at 2:34 pm
This is awesome! I just popped over here from someone else’s blog and am so excited about this and to follow your blog! I’m going to spread the word, thank you 🙂
Cassie Mae · December 7, 2011 at 2:38 pm
So excited! Thanks for the opportunity 🙂
Wahoo!
Julie Weathers · December 7, 2011 at 2:45 pm
This sounds like fun. I’m in.
Jenny Kaczorowski · December 7, 2011 at 6:47 pm
I’m at 255 words for a good stopping point. Is that okay or should I chop out a sentence?
Brenda Drake · December 8, 2011 at 8:16 am
Please go to the end of the sentence – don’t cut off if 250 falls in the middle of a sentence.
Then entry post is up. Check it out! I’m so thrilled to have you all joining in on the contest!
Crystal Licata · December 8, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Love this blogfest! Great idea 🙂
Kristy Shen · December 8, 2011 at 10:01 pm
Great blogfest! We’re super excited to enter and we’re so following you now 🙂
Heather Webb · December 10, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Hey Brenda. I’m going to be out this evening at a holiday party so I wanted to email you the entry. Am I overlooking your email address? I’m having trouble finding it.
Thanks for having the contest. It’s been so much fun to meet new people and see what everyone is writing!
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