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Friday, November 18, 2011
Can We Guess Your Character's Age? Blogfest Contest
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
So what are you waiting for? Sign up now!
3rd place - Edit of first 10 pages + 15% off
So what are you waiting for? Sign up now!
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Sounds fun :)
ReplyDeletewoot! 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
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see what others think!
ReplyDeleteOooh, this is pretty cool. Can't wait.
ReplyDeleteYay! So happy to see you all joining in - it should be fun! <3
ReplyDeleteI 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.)
ReplyDeleteGreat 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?
ReplyDeleteIf 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?
ReplyDeleteIf 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.
ReplyDeleteLooking forward to this!!
ReplyDeleteHi Brenda. Gave you a shout out on my latest post.
ReplyDeleteDenise
Can't wait :)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds super fun!!!!! Thanks!!
ReplyDeleteOooo, how unique!
ReplyDeleteEntering anything like this is a first for me. Wonder what age people will think for my character. The results could be interesting.
ReplyDeleteVery cool idea for a contest! Interested to see the results! =)
ReplyDeleteThis is an awesome contest, Brenda! Now to decide which ms to use! :)
ReplyDeleteSound like a Great contest. Especially since I'm reworking and probably over working my first page. Thanks! I will share.
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun. Keep plugging away at NaNo! You CAN do it!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea. I'm in.
ReplyDeleteSounds fun! Looking forward to reading everyone's pages. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm so excited to see you all joining in on the contest! Can't wait to see the entries! <3
ReplyDeleteI love your contests. :) Will there be another linkey list for us to put our actual post addresses on?
ReplyDeleteHey, I awarded you a blog award! Stop by and check it out!
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This sounds like a great contest. Thanks for offering it.
ReplyDeleteWonderful idea! I'm excited to read all the entries and start guessing.
ReplyDeleteHa ha! Great idea... I'm in!
ReplyDeleteThis is a great idea.... Can't wait until the 8th!
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like fun, and I'm looking forward to reading everyone's entries
ReplyDeleteWe're getting so close - can't wait!
ReplyDelete@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.
This sounds like a lot of fun. I'll definitely have to do this.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to read all the entries!
ReplyDeleteExcited for this contest! I always learn more about myself as a writer when I read from others, and get/give great feedback.
ReplyDeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog hop and contest! Found it on a friend's site. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for this, my first time doing any kind of contest, and first ever WIP! exciting! :)
ReplyDeleteThis sounds great!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a cool contest!
ReplyDeleteJust a few more days and I'm soooooo excited! Thanks all for joining the contest! <3
ReplyDeleteThanks for the great contest. I just added my link.
ReplyDeleteThis 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 :)
ReplyDeleteSo excited! Thanks for the opportunity :)
ReplyDeleteWahoo!
This sounds like fun. I'm in.
ReplyDeleteI'm at 255 words for a good stopping point. Is that okay or should I chop out a sentence?
ReplyDeletePlease go to the end of the sentence - don't cut off if 250 falls in the middle of a sentence.
ReplyDeleteThen entry post is up. Check it out! I'm so thrilled to have you all joining in on the contest!
Love this blogfest! Great idea :)
ReplyDeleteGreat blogfest! We're super excited to enter and we're so following you now :)
ReplyDeleteHey 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.
ReplyDeleteThanks for having the contest. It's been so much fun to meet new people and see what everyone is writing!