YALitChat NANOWRIMO Contest 2011!

[LM Preston]

YALitChat is proud to present it's 2011 Nanowrimo Contest!!!

1st Prize: Kindle Fire preloaded with eBooks we love!

2nd Prize: 1 year free YALITCHAT Tier 2 membership valued at $30/year

3rd Prize: 2 Free Novels (it's a surprise)

 

DIRECTIONS:

1. Post your nanowrimo log in name, name of story, general plot

2. Friend others on this contest board

3. Post your word count daily

4. Post 2 sentence teaser from what you've written that day

 

Winners will be notified by yalitchat.org mail by 12/30. Contest ends 11/30. Winners names will appear in January 2012 newsletter! Good luck and happy writing!

 

WINNERS!!!! 1/2/2012

Nanowrimo Contest Winners

1st Prize: at 100,011 words

Winner of Kindle Fire with Pre-Loaded books

Adrianne Russell

2nd Prize: at 83,018 words

year free YALITCHAT Tier 2 membership valued at $30/year

Mari J Carpenter

3rd Prize: at 79,919 words 

2 Free Novels (it's a surprise)

Nicole Zoltack

[Cinthia Voldseth]

NaNo Name:cindy_v

Day 8 Word count: 11,665

Untitled YA/Urban Fantasy

Teaser from Day 6,7, and 8

 

6:Their weapons lay innocently behind a goblin who was picking his large pointy nose

 

7:“Just forget it.” Vivian said brushing by him to leave. Instantly she jumped away. “I- I- I’m so sor-.” She began but Tim caught her up in his arms, drawing her chin up to meet his lips. 

 

8:“You take care little one, your not as thick skinned as you think you are.” He said playfully tugging her pony tail.

[Cameo Renae]

CameoRenae

Day 7: 993 words / 11,372

Mysteria

Children's Fantasy

She slowly pulled his pant-leg up higher and noticed that all of the veins running up his leg were turning black.

“Oh God! I don’t know if I can do this,” she whispered, her eyes filling with tears.

[Patricia Marques]

marquesp09/The Maere Crown

day 8: 3,230 

total: 15,570

teaser: 

"Alright. But can you let go of my arm please?" She doesn't add that she'd rather he not touch her at all.

 

[Bonnie Ferrante]

24,614 words now

 

"You gotta call an ambulance," said Chester. "But they don't come very often 'cos there's no gas."

[Adrianne Russell]

Log In: russellorama

Story: After the Jump

Plot: Kelly Landers, perpetual new girl, has moved six times in as many years.  As she starts her senior year in a new private school, all she wants is to put her past behind her but she quickly discovers that the one thing you cannot escape is yourself.

 

Day 7 Wordcount: 19,137

Day 7 Teaser: "Despite what you claim, I don't see throngs of people beating down your door to be your friend.  Fleur barely tolerates you and Cara hates your guts and that guy at the party's cool as long as your money doesn't run out."

 

Day 8 Wordcount: 19,730

Day 8 Teaser: It could be some kind of home invasion and here I am rushing toward it like Velma from Scooby Doo.  If only it was something simple like Old Man Johnson pretending to be the Snow Beast or a ghost pirate.

[Nicole Zoltack]

Nano name: Scarlett9284

Crystal's Magic

YA paranormal about religion and magic.

Day 8 word count: 2,840 (total 22,435)

Teaser: This time, she puckered her lips and kissed back. It was sweet and tender and everything a first kiss should be, even if it really was their second.

[Alicia Kat Dillman]

Nano name: KatGirl_Studio
Day 7 word count: 12641

The Storm Behind Your Eyes
Teaser for day 8:

“I… I don’t know,” I lied. I didn’t really know how I knew her but I had this feeling, this heaviness in my chest that told me I would protect her with my life.

 

[LM Preston]

Oh my goodness you all have some great books here! Loving the teasers!!

[Bonnie Ferrante]

28,323 words so far. I'm not very impressed with the quality of some sections today. There will have to be some major revisions. I also decided to merge six planned chapters into two. If I was getting bored writing it, I'm sure the reader would be bored reading it.

 

"Do you have any pets in your city?" she asked.

"Nope," said Rupert. "Everybody ate the pets."

[Eliza Tilton]

"Everybody ate the pets" ROFL!

[Patricia Marques]

marquesp09/The Maere Crown

day 9: 2,456

total: 18,026

teaser: 

It looks as if it's made of a black stone. It gleams, watery, like water sliding off an eels back, against the bruised skin of the girl's throat.

 

 

[Rebecca Ryals Russell]

Day 5: 1241

Day 6: 1501

Day 7: 1932

Day 8: 1376-wrote a pix bk:The Sponey Pot

“Come with me, littluns,” she said, pulling the hand of the smallest bear. The others grabbed hold and Clare led a chain of tiny bears through the forest toward the field. At six, Clare was the oldest of the littuns, since her brother Robbie no long played with them. At the edge of the field she stared, not believing her eyes. The cleanly harvested field from a few days ago was now a mess of withered, wet corn husks and stalks. They lay everywhere across the field. The winds had obviously carried the piles of debris and scattered it across the fields so they couldn’t be plowed until they had been cleaned up again.

            In the distance she saw Farmer Bear strolling through the debris field, holding his head and moaning. She had an idea and gathered the littluns around her to share it. They all nodded and scattered across the field as though blown by the storm winds.

 

Day 9: 2939/Total: 17,491

Instead, I nearly fell backwards off my own bunk I was so startled to see two transparent girls hovering in the impossibly narrow space between the bunks, staring down at me. Instead of falling, however, my bottom hit a spot in the air so freezing it caused me to flip over on my bunk to investigate, thereby saving me a probable broken leg or neck. However, the ensuing near heart attack might not have been worth it. Another transparent girl floated on this opposite side of my bunk, also staring at me. She smiled as I scooted immediately toward the head of my bed, holding my pillow before me as a shield and yanking the blanket up to my chin. The cold I had experienced moments earlier, however, spread throughout my being until I shivered uncontrollably.