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]

I will be posting ten times, but I'm doing a few close together because I got into this a bit after the start. Catherine
Today: 1,925 words
Snippet: It wasn’t as if Lenny was that exciting. He talked about his dad’s shoe business and how Indianapolis was experiencing urban sprawl. How boring was that?

[Angel Lawson]

Another day another section....

Today:1.675

Snippet: I understood what she was asking. She was tracing the design with her hand. First the house. Tiny blue marbles made up the small rectangle of the building. Next, her thumb ran over the orange and red pieces of the fire that licked the sky. Her fingers then splayed upward mimicking the bright colored smoke spiraling to the top of the picture.

[Catherine Stine]

Love "the blue marbles made up the small rectangle of the building" part of your snippet. Very mystical.!

anna benefield said:

Another day another section....

Today:1.675

Snippet: I understood what she was asking. She was tracing the design with her hand. First the house. Tiny blue marbles made up the small rectangle of the building. Next, her thumb ran over the orange and red pieces of the fire that licked the sky. Her fingers then splayed upward mimicking the bright colored smoke spiraling to the top of the picture.

[Michelle Clark]

I didn't get much done today, but I'm at 22,009.

Snippet: The screens lit up with a video of Arena on the edge of a volcano, wearing a flowered sarong and lei while busy ironing.

[LM Preston]

Tired, but almost finished this sequel. 31212 words.

Snippet:

He'd hurt her, and knew it. But she didn't care what he said, or did to her....she'd kill him. She wanted this to be over, this war, but the battles in ending this would be many.

[Michelle Clark]

I made it to 25,012!

Snippet: “So you are the leak,” he said. “I should have guessed. Smelled like your handiwork. Like rotten perfume. Been dumpster diving again?”

[LM Preston]

You go Michelle!!!!! Yippee. Love the snippet too!

I haven't been able to write, life happens and now I'm sitting down to start for the day. I hit a roadblock and had to redo part of my outline. Sheesh. Anyway, I can tell that I'll have a lot to do to plump this nanowrimo novel up.


Michelle Clark said:

I made it to 25,012!

Snippet: “So you are the leak,” he said. “I should have guessed. Smelled like your handiwork. Like rotten perfume. Been dumpster diving again?”

[Adrienne Gelbart]

Ok, this is the first day that I not just made my daily word count but added to the 1,666! Finally!

So word count is 7,507 and I have to write 2600 words a day to meet the 50k deadline, it's still do-able!

Snippet
Up at the front of the church was a stone table, the table top must have been a foot thick, it’s how I would imagine Aslans table in The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Ten large wooden, high backed chairs surrounded the table, like the round table of King Arthur. I pinched myself, I was here for serious, Alex-your-gonna-be-killed-business and I was comparing it to scenes from a movie.

[Adrienne Gelbart]

Been dumpster diving again? Ha, Love it!

LM Preston said:

You go Michelle!!!!! Yippee. Love the snippet too!

I haven't been able to write, life happens and now I'm sitting down to start for the day. I hit a roadblock and had to redo part of my outline. Sheesh. Anyway, I can tell that I'll have a lot to do to plump this nanowrimo novel up.


Michelle Clark said:

I made it to 25,012!

Snippet: “So you are the leak,” he said. “I should have guessed. Smelled like your handiwork. Like rotten perfume. Been dumpster diving again?”

[LM Preston]

Only got to a measily 32001 today. Even after staying up late to get some writing in.

Here's my snippet:
Relief flooded her. She couldn’t – wouldn’t slip on this one, like with the kids earlier. She had to either nail the mole on his betrayal, or find out what was driving him to come here.

[Catherine Stine]

Yay, made it to 25,810 words, with 1,922 written today.
My snippet: “I didn’t quite hear you.” Wilson’s tone was sharp now. His chewed up cuticles dotted with black polish were impatiently tapping on the keypad.

[Angel Lawson]

Actually got some work done today....

daily: 1,924

snippet: I laughed. “You don’t want to know. She needs to learn when to keep her big mouth shut.” I was getting worked up. All the anger from the other day boiled under my skin.

“I doubt that will happen,” he said, crossing his legs at the ankles. “It’s obviously bothering you. What did she say?”

“Fine. She thinks you haven’t changed. She thinks your going to end up back in trouble like before,” I blurted. “She also thinks I’m a fool for trusting you.”