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

[Leatrice McKinney]

Was there a cutoff date for entering?

[Nicole Zoltack]

Nano name: Scarlett9284
Crystal's Magic
YA paranormal about witches, magic, and religion
Day 22 word count 1,676 (total 66,800)
Teaser:    His eyes were closed, and he looked peaceful, as if he were sleeping.

               If only that was the case.

[Nicole Zoltack]

Nano name: Scarlett9284
Crystal's Magic
YA paranormal about witches, magic, and religion
Day 23 word count 1,346 (total 68,146)
Teaser: The Vince she heard in her mind, he sounded broken, lost. As if everything important had been stripped of him, and all he had left were hurts and regrets.

[Nicole Zoltack]

Nano name: Scarlett9284
Crystal's Magic
YA paranormal about witches, magic, and religion
Day 24 word count 3,734 (total 71,880)
Teaser: If letting him sleep longer saved him from fear, she was more than willing to wait to be reunited with him.

[Adrianne Russell]

Login: 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 22 Wordcount; 50,193

Day 22 Teaser: "You have all the power.  Girls always do, they just don’t realize it."

Day 23 Wordcount: 52,535

Day 23 Teaser: All these things that were supposed to be so bad for me felt so good.  Even when everything went to hell and I was expected to be remorseful and sorry for it all, I could never admit to it not feeling awesome.

Day 24 Wordcount: 53,642

Day 24 Teaser: When I look back on it, there were so many clues and red flags it’s like I wanted to get caught or something, but between Mama and Daddy’s personal dramas—his determination to become the next Rockefeller, her waxing and waning obsessions with food—it was months before they figured out anything was wrong.

[Rebecca Ryals Russell]

Day 21- 606 

Winter storms rolled in from across the ocean with icy fingers that gripped Seacity Village in its clutches. Streets usually bustling on warm Autumn mornings, were barren and empty—the few brave souls who had no choice, scurried bent double, wool coats wrapped tightly around their coveralls and knit caps pulled low over their ears.

Day 23-2028

I barely recognize Jess. The short brown hair and serious brown eyes of the boy I’d first met last December have all but disappeared. Now, eight months later, his hair is streaked with gray and silver, the skin surrounding his eyes bare deep wrinkles and his once smooth forehead is furrowed.

            Shock rocks my soul. What has happened to him? He looks eighty years old.

 

Day 24-2600

Unlike the Vestive, the air here smelled of leather and sweat. The entire floor was one open room with no windows—or at least the windows had been boarded up and painted black. Obviously, they didn’t want anyone looking out or in. Standing upright in the center of the room, a metal cage gleamed beneath a low, bright spotlight.

Day 25-4783/total 50,328

April arrived all too soon as far as I was concerned. I dreaded being basted. What would I do if I got preggers again and had to go into The Void? I couldn’t kill another boy. I wouldn’t kill another boy. So I was thrilled when, after two weeks, I still hadn’t dreamed of The Void and knew I wasn’t preggers.

[Nicole Zoltack]

Nano name: Scarlett9284
Crystal's Magic
YA paranormal about witches, magic, and religion
Day 25 word count 3,672 (total 75,552)
Teaser: Doubt and confusion swam in the creature’s eyes. The dark orbs changed into human eyes before becoming animalistic again. The rhino lowered its head again and then brought it up swiftly, gorging Crystal.

[Nicole Zoltack]

Nano name: Scarlett9284
Crystal's Magic
YA paranormal about witches, magic, and religion
Day 26 word count 2,461 (total 78,013)
Teaser:  She was losing herself, her emotions, her control, her feelings. She no longer knew who she was, what she was becoming.

            And yet the power within her… she knew that if she gave herself over to it completely, nothing, no one, would be able to stop her.

            Not even herself.

[Rebecca Ryals Russell]

Day 26-2962

Because I’d been basted earlier in the month, Matron Eve sent me to the Vestive to be checked. I already knew I wasn’t preggers because I hadn’t dreamed. But I went anyway. But on my way up in the elevator it occurred to me that if the doctor did an exam, would he be able to tell what Josh and I did yesterday? The doors opened, filling the small space with that antiseptic odor I hated. All I could do at this point was hope for the best.

Day 27-1752/total 60,832

For days all I could think about was Josh standing alone in The Void, scared and wondering why he was there. Who was preggers with his seed? I hadn’t even known he’d been milked, but I guess all young men are required, just as we were. So the question became, who was in The Void with him? How could I find out without being too obvious? Then I remembered the vision of Moira and her Clan.

[Nicole Zoltack]

Nano name: Scarlett9284
Crystal's Magic
YA paranormal about witches, magic, and religion
Day 27 word count 1,196 (total 79,209)
Teaser: A sentinel, magical storm… no one would be able to stop it.

           Have I unknowingly doomed the world?

[LM Preston]

Just TWO More Days!!!! Please post final numbers :-D

[Nicole Zoltack]

Nano name: Scarlett9284
Crystal's Magic
YA paranormal about witches, magic, and religion
Day 28 word count 710(total 79,919) - All done!
Teaser: Tears streamed down her face. Not because of the pain or the growing coldness. She didn’t fear death.