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)

[Catherine Stine]

Congrats! Yeah, they chopped off about 200 words on mine, so I'm glad I overwrite a bit!

Michelle Clark said:

I just verified at 50,585. Kinda disappointed that their word counter chopped about 900 words off the one in my editing software, but oh, well. I've been hearing everyone gets really different results with that, but I'm glad to be done.

“I was trying to wriggle free when they came back. They opened the back doors, and were telling me to behave or they’d sedate me when Agent Schmidt plowed into them with the board.” He grinned at her. “Just like a bowling ball..."

[Adrienne Gelbart]

So happy for everyone, I feel happy knowing that I didn't get to it but others did, I guess it gives you hope. I will be doing NaNo in December now as moving house, and a charity event hindered my progress. The moving was the killer, I am still living amongst boxes!
Congrats to all those who finished, who ended up way over 50k, or a little under and those, like myself, who really, really tried but couldn't get there.

Adrienne

[Mary Jo Campbell]

I'm with anna - I petered out at just about 35k. No. more. energy. But I created story I believe in and love and part of me needed to step back so I didn't smother my characters ; )

CONGRATULATIONS to all winners (and us participants!) I'm also proud that I inspired my 11 yr old son to write 4,000 words and my 6 yr old set out to write 300 and reached beyond 1,000 (of course, his noveling was more "dictating.") And I lead 13 young writers to participate in YWP NaNo, of which 3 reached their goal and will rec'v a free paperback copy of their novel. : ) I guess it's the mom in me that I get more excited about their accomplishments.

Thanks, LM for hosting. This was fun and inspiring!

[Mary Jo Campbell]

That is hilarious! I never thought of using my kids as "props" to help me plot : )


LM Preston said:

I am still chugging away, but it's slow. I will finish this thing by Sunday. I had to stop and rework a scene in my head. Sad, but I had to draw stick people in position to know what I wanted them to do. I think tonight I'll have my kids act out the scene before I can write it.

[Rebecca Ryals Russell]

Okay. It's 11:17 and I've been really pushing today. I'm at 61, 754 on this story but I finished 2 MG ms which I submitted in early Nov. That was about 10,000 words between the 2 of them. I got into Part 3 today and love the direction the story's taking.

Snippet: “Where are we?” I asked, giving him a quick hug.
“The side of the Quietus, where the equipment is stored.”
“Is it safe here?” I looked around anxiously.
“There’s no one else around. I’m the only Retriever.”
“From Reaper to Retriever, huh. I guess there’s certain irony in that.” I laughed softly, still looking around. “Have you ever been inside? Do you know what’s at the back of this place? What happens here, anyway? I’ve always wondered why all the old people come to the Quietus.”
“Oh, you’ll find this very interesting,” Josh said. He wasn’t smiling, so I knew he wasn’t joking.
“Okay. Can you show me?”

[Rebecca Ryals Russell]

Forgot to mention I've been wearing a wrist brace for the last week. Got carpal tunnel from so much typing. I'll be slowing down a bit to rest the wrist after today.

Congratulations to everyone who participated. This was a lot of fun but what I enjoyed most was reading everyone's posts along the way. Good job everyone!

[LM Preston]

I'm so happy to be around motivating authors who kick butt when it comes to chucking out words!

My kids also do my fight scenes :-D



Mary Jo Campbell said:

That is hilarious! I never thought of using my kids as "props" to help me plot : )


LM Preston said:

I am still chugging away, but it's slow. I will finish this thing by Sunday. I had to stop and rework a scene in my head. Sad, but I had to draw stick people in position to know what I wanted them to do. I think tonight I'll have my kids act out the scene before I can write it.

[Michelle Clark]

Congratulations to everyone! I think just getting something down is an accomplishment. At least we are further ahead than we were before we started.

This was my first Nano and my first novel, so I learned a lot that I can use later. I've got a lot of editing to do, but I feel a little bit empty today and not sure where to go next. I also came up with a number of ideas this month. Seems that the writing process tends to generate that. I tried to write everything down that came to mind, but didn't look at them after that. I might start writing on one of those now as I edit this novel.

[Catherine Stine]

Yes, it's not over, even though I reached 50K. I still have around 100 pages to go in order to finish my first draft. The challenge will be to charge on.

[Mary Jo Campbell]

Hey NaNo'ers!

Check out Plot Whisperer for PlotWriMo - she's posting daily (non-writing) exercises all month of Dec to help you develop and polish your NaNo novel plot.

Here's a snippet from her newsletter:

1) 3rd ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL PLOT WRITING MONTH begins December 1st and runs to the end of the year.

You are cordially invited to the Annual International Plot Writing Month, beginning today to refine the plot arc of your story.
Let your words rest for the entire month of December.
Step back and consider the overall structure and plot of your story.


Have an idea for a novel?
A draft of your screenplay?
Think you've finished the final draft of your memoir?


Wondering, now what?

Everyday, a manageable new assignment tailor-made for the busiest month of the year.
Day-by-day, scene-by-scene, step-by-step tips and tricks and inspiration beginning Dec. 1st.

No writing required.
It's a time to analyze what you have and brainstorm for an effortless 1st, 2nd, or final draft in January '11.


Follow along with the 3rd Annual International Plot Writing Month http://plotwhisperer.blogspot.com/

[Kelly Mooney]

Yipee! I finished and was a winner doing just over the 50k mark. They chopped over fifty words off of mine as well. Glad I had a few extra in there.
Congrats to everyone who attempted this one. It was a difficult month to pull this off.
Kelly

[Catherine Stine]

Congrats, Kelly!!!

Kelly Mooney said:

Yipee! I finished and was a winner doing just over the 50k mark. They chopped over fifty words off of mine as well. Glad I had a few extra in there.
Congrats to everyone who attempted this one. It was a difficult month to pull this off.
Kelly