In the month of February, there's an awesome blogfest hosted by:
1) Live to write...Edit when necessary.
2) Cassie Mae over at Reading, Writing, and Lovin' it.
Whats the dealio you ask? Characters! And a chance for AWESOME PRIZES! (I'm not even kidding about the prizes)
Here are the details:
Monday, February 6th--Characters on the couch:
Have one of your characters answer the following
questions (to make this work to your benefit, choose a character who is the
hardest for you to write :) Max 250 words (Not including the questions—only the
answers).
- What is your biggest vulnerability? Do others know this or is it a secret?
- What do people believe about you that is false?
- What would your best friend say is your fatal flaw? Why?
- What would the same friend say is your one redeeming quality? Why?
- What do you want most? What will you do to get it?
Wednesday, February 8th--Dialogue Introduction:
Have two characters introduce each other using
only dialogue—no backstory, no internalization, just dialogue between the two.
Max 250 words.
Friday, February 10th -- Emotion Flash Fiction:
Friday, February 10th -- Emotion Flash Fiction:
Emotion is the engine of a story. Pick an emotion
and in a flash fiction piece of 250 words MAKE us feel it! We want to connect
with your character. This will be a challenge in 250 words.
Prizes include two books, two query critiques, and two FULL MANUSCRIPT
critiques. Seriously.
So, I've signed up. What about you?
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Unfortunately I already had this week booked!
ReplyDeleteWhoa. Cool! *runs over to check it out*
ReplyDelete~JD
It's a great idea! Sounds like a really fun one.
ReplyDeleteHappy Monday!
wow! those are some great exercises even if you don't enter the blogfest/ contest!
ReplyDeleteI am sure lots of writers will jump at that opportunity.
ReplyDeleteI just finished a book in which the author confessed her first manuscript of the work was 900 pages. Now that would make for a jaw drop if someone tried to cash in the full manuscript prize with that 30 lbs. stack of paper.
Yay! thanks for spreading the word! I'm all sorts of excited :)
ReplyDeleteAnd Slamdunk... I think if that landed in my inbox, I'd crap myself. Agh!
Thanks for the shout out Sarah :)
ReplyDeleteI like that second exercise, and the third one could be interesting (especially after reading Blackest Night. The first one is the kind of character building stuff I always struggle with because my characters don't always fit in with the relatively mundane kinds of questions (like the first character I thought of doesn't, and wouldn't, have a best friend...).
ReplyDeleteMight give it a shot. We'll see.
Blogfests can have prizes? Who ever heard of such a thing?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like an awesome blogfest with incredible prizes! Unfortunately, I'm really swamped right now, otherwise I'd totally enter. Thanks for the heads up, though.
ReplyDeleteP.S. It's been a while. How are you? :)
I joined this one. It shall be fun and give me something by which to blog.
ReplyDeleteNot taking part in this one, but will enjoy reading the entries :-)
ReplyDeleteNot sure I can make it work, but I'm going to try. :)
ReplyDeleteGreat blogfest, Sarah! Sounds challenging. It doesn't allow the writer to sit on his or her laurels. I'm often guilty of that. Thanks for the info!
ReplyDeleteWow, I think it is blogfest season! They are popping up all over the place.
ReplyDeleteWow, those are awesome prizes! Thanks for the heads up.
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