Nathan's new contest -- "The Preposterously Magnificent Dialogue Challenge"

Kryianna · May 20, 2008

The amazing agent Nathan Bransford is doing another contest over at his blog:

http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/

250 words of dialogue. Read the original post for more rules, as they are subject to change. Prizes, which of course are also subject to change, are a choice of a query critique, partial critique, or 10 minute phone conversation with Nathan.

Deadline is 5:00 PM Pacific Time on Wednesday May 21st. As there are already 233 entries at the time I'm writing this, get yours in before Nathan's head and blog explodes.

Good luck, everyone!

mscelina · May 20, 2008

Oh! Oh!

*scurries off to frantically search for decent dialogue*

KTC · May 20, 2008

Kryianna said:
The amazing agent Nathan Bransford is doing another contest over at his blog:

http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com/

250 words of dialogue. Read the original post for more rules, as they are subject to change. Prizes, which of course are also subject to change, are a choice of a query critique, partial critique, or 10 minute phone conversation with Nathan.

Deadline is 5:00 PM Pacific Time on Wednesday May 21st. As there are already 233 entries at the time I'm writing this, get yours in before Nathan's head and blog explodes.

Good luck, everyone!

OH SWEET MAMA! There is a ~~god~~ Nathan! I'm there. Thanks for the heads up...

C.bronco · May 20, 2008

I just printed out the entry rules.

This should be fun!

Cranky · May 20, 2008

Oooh, I might just have something that will work!

Polenth · May 20, 2008

I didn't have anything heavily dialoguey, so I made something up at random. Yay for entering though.

jannawrites · May 20, 2008

Huzzah! I just entered. What a rush!

Good luck to everyone. Maybe it'll be one of our AWers who wins!

Judg · May 20, 2008

Sometimes I think that man is insane. Or just plain masochistic.

I entered anyway.

maestrowork · May 20, 2008

I'm not going to enter in any more contests.

But good luck, everyone.

SPMiller · May 20, 2008

I put up some stuff that critters have tagged as a "fascinating" or "interesting" exchange. Not sure if it can stand without the story, though. We'll see.

KTC · May 20, 2008

That was hard to pick. I just posted my excerpt. Argh... yuck!

SPMiller · May 20, 2008

Odd. My post didn't show. Now I'm worried about a double-post if I try again.

Kryianna · May 20, 2008

SP, mine took a few minutes before it appeared.

Judg · May 20, 2008

SP, there are two pages of comments. That's probably why you didn't see yours.

SPMiller · May 20, 2008

Well, it has been 25 minutes. I can wait a little longer, I guess.

Oh, Judg, I know. I'm looking at rosie's post timestamped May 20, 2008 2:29 PM.

There. Tried a second time and it worked.

Shweta · May 20, 2008

Okay, I'm going to take a breath and enter, I guess.
First draft conversation from the novel, whee.

ETA: On second thoughts, maybe not. I can't find a single place where I have 250 words of conversation without a lot of setting, where I don't want to go in and massively rewrite. Oh well.

c.e.lawson · May 20, 2008

I looked over some of the entries briefly, and MAN it's hard to make a snippet of dialogue instantly engaging. 250 words is NOTHING!

c.e.

Judg · May 20, 2008

Ain't it true, C.E. Yet I was rather impressed with how good many of them sounded. Before I quit reading, that is. I'm not as crazy as Nathan.

KTC · May 20, 2008

c.e.lawson said:
I looked over some of the entries briefly, and MAN it's hard to make a snippet of dialogue instantly engaging. 250 words is NOTHING!

c.e.

That is exactly what I was thinking. And it took me for ever to find something even semi-worthy of posting.

mscelina · May 20, 2008

Well, I'm in. Fortunately, I had a nice little snippet of dialogue between a reasonable being and a religious fanatic--from a WIP where the god is an atheist. *snerk!* Ah well, it will be interesting to watch.

Of course, my dialogue SUCKS, but what the hey?

SPMiller · May 20, 2008

mscelina said:
Well, I'm in. Fortunately, I had a nice little snippet of dialogue between a reasonable being and a religious fanatic--from a WIP where the god is an atheist.

From first-draft portion of my fantasy novel, page 331:

[The god says:] "I--I've dreamed of this moment, when I finally cease to be. Tell me. Do you believe in God?"

"No."

The doll's little mouth, a line of black ink painted onto its face, twisted into a smile. "Neither do I."

Obviously this isn't what I entered, but hooray for atheistic deities!

mscelina · May 20, 2008

Yeah--I like the conflict--it's non-existent for the character, and overwhelmingly important to everyone else.

A snippet of my snippet:

“Blasphemy!”

Aleira smiled at the priestess’ indignant shriek. “Is it blasphemy to think? If what I say and think and do is offensive to her, she could obliterate me from existence, right? She evidently doesn’t have any trouble sending people to war. One life more isn’t much to take.”

Matera the Mad · May 20, 2008

I actually managed to load the page and post it this time.

Devil Ledbetter · May 20, 2008

KTC said:
That is exactly what I was thinking. And it took me for ever to find something even semi-worthy of posting.

Oh good, I thought it was just me. I came up with three dialogue-heavy sections that didn't require additional explaining, then let my husband decide which one to post.

It's #362.

mscelina · May 20, 2008

Is it just me, or had nothing been added to the contest thread in like three hours? Just curious, because my entry hasn't shown up yet.

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