Contest at Nathan Bransford's blog

katiemac · Oct 12, 2009

Heads up: First Paragraph Contest at Nathan Bransford's blog. Entry deadline is Thursday at 4 PM.

Neat prizes for the winners:

The GRAND PRIZE STUPENDOUSLY ULTIMATE WINNER will receive....

1) Their choice of a partial critique, query critique, or phone consultation

2) A very-sought-after galley of THE SECRET YEAR by Jennifer Hubbard, which will be published by Viking in January:

3) A signed THE SECRET YEAR bookmark

4) The envy of their rivals

5) The pride of a job well done

6) I think you get the picture

The STUPENDOUSLY ULTIMATE FINALISTS will receive....

a) Query critiques

b) A signed THE SECRET YEAR bookmark (assuming you live in a place that is reached in a reasonably affordable fashion by the postal service no offense forraners)

c) Pride. Lots of pride

DeleyanLee · Oct 12, 2009

Mondo cool! Got mine up. I think I'm like the 500th comment. LOL!

ETA: Just double-checked. I'm 491 if Wayne is 501.

Cranky · Oct 12, 2009

Oooh, doing it again this year? *grins*

Wayne K · Oct 12, 2009

I'm 501. Yay we're neighbors.

DangerT · Oct 12, 2009

I submitted!

...then I got nervous because, technically, my first paragraph is one sentence. So by that definition I posted like, 7 paragraphs.

And so I deleted it.

charlotte49ers · Oct 12, 2009

I'm 545! Bless his heart for having to read through all of these.

backslashbaby · Oct 12, 2009

I'm not entering because I won't win and he has a ton of reading to do! [Mine's probably going to be cut from my WIP, but I've written on].

I'll post mine in SYW if anyone else wants to see theirs there. I'm a SYW virgin and I won't do it alone

LMK or start a post.

charlotte49ers · Oct 12, 2009

Do it, do it, do it!

I'll add mine. I ain't skeerd.

backslashbaby · Oct 12, 2009

Really?! OK

Mine's not first draft; I just want to do better when the WIP comes all together.

Oooo, I am skeerd!!

kaitie · Oct 12, 2009

560.

Haha mine's definitely first draft. In that I've written half a page sense of the word.

Ken Hoss · Oct 12, 2009

Posted mine! # 558.

FOTSGreg · Oct 12, 2009

I'm in. Had to post anonymously due to my forgetting my pw, but I'll know it...

Cyia · Oct 12, 2009

I think I'll post a few 1st paragraphs here in SYW first and see which one people like best before I post on Nathan's blog

backslashbaby · Oct 12, 2009

Here's the SYW thread

http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=158523

Alright, I'm doing mine now!

ASN64 · Oct 12, 2009

I think everyone should enter. So many people posted more than one paragraph that your chances of being a finalist increase simply because people don't follow directions! Mine is # 408 I think. I forget.

Good luck everyone!

backslashbaby · Oct 12, 2009

Good luck!

I'm good with it giving me the guts to do SYW. I'd change my own, honestly. I just don't know how I would yet.

~*Kate*~ · Oct 12, 2009

I'm 18 or so.

KTC · Oct 12, 2009

Thanks for the heads up. I just submitted. How do you find out what post number it is?

JoNightshade · Oct 12, 2009

Man, Nathan is a glutton for punishment. I would die trying to run that contest. And it's open until Thursday??? He's a nutcase.

Gemnyc · Oct 12, 2009

I'm 598!
I wonder if he started regretting it when it went over 200?

KTC · Oct 12, 2009

I'm 589. I think. (-;

Wayne K · Oct 12, 2009

KTC said:
I'm 589. I think. (-;

The memory starts to go around 500

KTC · Oct 12, 2009

Wayne K said:
The memory starts to go around 500

Good one.

mscelina · Oct 12, 2009

I'm 607.

ack.

Cyia · Oct 12, 2009

With the number of entries, I think a lot of people are going to be surprised at how many of them they'd be able to weed out from just that first paragraph.

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