YALITCHAT Nanowrimo 2010 CONTEST!!!!

[LM Preston]

1^st Prize gets you a Kindle

2^nd Prize a 20 page Critique by Industry Editor or Agent

3^rd Prize  a bookpack of Rampant by Diana Peterfreund plus 2 books from Harper 

Contest details. If you want to enter the contest we’d be excited to have you.  The winner meets their 50K goal or has the highest count of all contestants. As well as posting a snippet of writing daily (25 words of your writing for the day) and the word count for the day that you post. The winner would have posted at least 10 times during the month of November their word count and snippet for that day. Please provide your nanowrimo.org screen name and buddy all of the contestants.

So here is the steps to enter:

-          Be a member of Yalitchat

-          Join Contest Forum

-          Post Introduction to include (nanowrimo login name, title of nanowork, current words completed, 5 sentence synopsis of book you are writing)

-          Post Daily or weekly (word count, 25 word snippet of what your wrote during the recent session)

-          Winner is the highest recorded word count from all contestants (be warned, you may be asked to present draft to prove word count.)

 

 

NOTE: Annette Pollert of Simon Pulse will do 20 pg crit for nano contest. Annette's profile can be found on the YALITCHAT.ORG. She's an Echelon member.

 

NanoWrimo Contest Winners
FYI: I disqualified those that didn't follow the rules by posting their nanowrimo name, book name, and posting daily.

Numbers for those I could go to the nanowrimo site and validate:

1st Prize: Rebecca Ryals Russell (72000)
2nd Prize: Michelle Clark (50585)
3rd Prize: Catherine Stine (50348)

[C. Lee McKenzie]

Lovely, LM. What a great lineup of prizes. Have already Tweeted and put on FB. You had a great idea!

[Robin Lucas]

How exciting! But I'm afraid if I participate, I wouldn't get much done... This site always gets me in trouble-- there's just so much great info and encouragement. I could spend hours at a time here. :)
Best of luck to everyone doing NaNo and entering the contest!!

[Nicōle Olea]

Awesome! I'll post on my blog and to my local forums on NaNoWriMo. As well as facebook and Twitter...

[Angel Lawson]

Where do we post our contest info? here? on the contest forum? No brain cells left from writing...

[LM Preston]

Post on contest forum, with snippet of what you wrote that day.



anna benefield said:

Where do we post our contest info? here? on the contest forum? No brain cells left from writing...

[LM Preston]

I'm at 15,012 wrds.

Here's a snippet of what I wrote:

“Kiss off.” He coughed. “What you’d do to me is nothing compared to him, kid.”

She squinted. “Really.” She reached in her belt and took out a syring, figuring the truth tick was too gentle of an option for him. The syringe filled with the truth serum would work much faster, besides she could make it a heck of a lot more painful for a man who kidnapped defenseless kids.

“Wha-what the hell is that?” A flash of fear crossed his face.

She smirked. “Something kids do to bad guys.” With anger, she jabbed the needle deep within his neck until he cried out in pain.

[Janet Flora Corso]

This is amazing! What a great contest. I admit I am floundering around 14K right now. I have been using the Scrivener Beta and having some problems ( missing text sort of problems). Was very frustrated last night and I needed some motivation today! Thanks LM :)
Wait...not writing a YA for this year's NaNo. Does that disqualify me?

[LM Preston]

Nope! You are a member and that's all that counts :-D


Janet Flora Corso said:

This is amazing! What a great contest. I admit I am floundering around 14K right now. I have been using the Scrivener Beta and having some problems ( missing text sort of problems). Was very frustrated last night and I needed some motivation today! Thanks LM :)
Wait...not writing a YA for this year's NaNo. Does that disqualify me?

[Angel Lawson]

NaNo login name: ambenefield
current words completed 12,342
Working on the Second Part of my completed novel Wraith

Daily count: 3,421

snippet: “Wait…what? Suicide?” Julia asked. She put her trashy magazine down for the first time that day. Gossip always caught her attention.

[C. Lee McKenzie]

Love your snippet!


anna benefield said:

NaNo login name: ambenefield
current words completed 12,342
Working on the Second Part of my completed novel Wraith

Daily count: 3,421

snippet: “Wait…what? Suicide?” Julia asked. She put her trashy magazine down for the first time that day. Gossip always caught her attention.

[Angel Lawson]

Thanks!

Today: 1,224

snippet: “No, not like an angel. They weren’t on your back. They were where your arms are. Like a bird. The feathers were glossy black. Almost blue.”

“Like a crow?” I choked out.

“More like a Raven.”

“Was I doing anything?”

“You were transporting spirits between this world and the next. Carrying them like a baby in a storks mouth.”

[LM Preston]

Anna great snippet! I just started writing today, but am off work so I'll post mine when I'm finished.