Contests, Contest Winner, Writing Tips and More
ate Kaynak - aka Disgruntled Bear - has a spring writing contest on, featuring awesome tag lines from a number of different authors. I based my entry on help from Nadja (thank you! and let me know whether you'd prefer a critique of your first page or 10$ through PayPal!):A dangerous and passionate journey, for a love that must transcend faith and family, East and West.
Voting starts Monday. Please head over to the contest page and vote for your favourite awesome line.
ori has been posting awesome writing tips from Lauri, a dear member of the Compuserve Books and Writers Community who passed away last year. Here's Lauri on Character Motivation, Trimming the Fat, and Back Story.
edeia's been blogging about books she's reading - and I won the giveaway! Thanks Medeia!
ot much to report for A Round of Words in 80 Days. I edited 20 pages yesterday! But it was all scribbles on paper; I've only transferred a few pages worth into the actual MS. I've chopped a lot out of the middle of the novel and now there's a gaping hole in it that needs quite a lot of stitching. What to do, what to do...
oh! Tahereh has ARCs of Shatter Me to give away!
lug for Hélène Boudreau (host of #weekendwordwar on Facebook) whose got lots of MGs and YAs coming out!
uiet, please. Our author's trying to solve a plotting problem...
Comments
Tossing some CONFETTI here at your place, in her memory!
Given your comment on my blog the solution will probably be something you don't want to do!
Keep up the editing and good luck working out your plot issue.
Have a great week, Deniz! ~ Nadja
Thanks for the mention of these contests, I hadn't heard of these blogs - great contest idea - love your logline!
Keep up the great work on your wip!
All the best for you wip!
I look forward to reading SHATTER ME.
Thanks for the links!
And yes -- you should most definitely consider reading "A Song of Ice and Fire." The fifth book is coming out this summer, so it's the perfect time! Although, I will warn you, they suck you in. Don't start unless you have a significant amount of time to read!
Thanks Cathryn and Katy!
Looking forward to your email Nadja...
Thank you TerryLynn, Nas, Claire and Talli - hope you guys had great weekends too!
Thanks Jenny. I wish the scribbles would fly over onto the computer, though...
Thanks Medeia and alberta!
I wouldn't mind winning that ARC either, Theresa. Too many books on my wishlist - it's fun to win a few.
Thanks Bess - oh no, not more books to suck me in... I need a week off work just to read :-)
Thanks for all of the links. :)