Tag: fiction
member name: Dale C.
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April 21, 2009 04:00 PM EDT --
This past weekend I went to the three and a half day High Tension Writing Workshop by Donald Maass, a literary agent and author of Writing The Breakout Novel. I'm still kind of processing . . .
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August 26, 2007 09:25 PM EDT --
I've been thinking about how I'm going to approach the job of going through the entries starting tomorrow and doing my little part to make sure the best entries make it to the next round. . . .
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September 01, 2007 01:00 PM EDT --
In the original First Chapters contest I did several reviews in stream-of-consciousness style. I just opened NotePad in a window and read the entry, writing down whatever reaction I had as I was . . .
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May 02, 2007 09:50 AM EDT --
Here are the ratings for the 10 semi-finalists in the First Chapters competition approximately 24 hours after the third round started. Astroturf comments are probably from friends of the author. . . .
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May 05, 2007 12:06 PM EDT --
It's a whole new contest after the latest fraud sweep at around 10:30 Central Saturday morning. Everyone went up this time, with some entries going up a lot more than others
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May 12, 2007 11:56 AM EDT --
I originally wrote the following article for the Fantasy Amateur Press Association (FAPA) a group of about three dozen members of science fiction fandom, some published authors and some not. I . . .
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June 12, 2008 10:45 PM EDT --
Announcing: The Writing Wombats Slushpile Simulator Competition
My intent is to confound those who think the Writing Wombats are short on writing and long on miscellaneous chat. As an incidental . . .
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June 21, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
We're getting enough entries that it may be getting a little harder to find all of them. Here are links to all of the entries so far in alphabetical order by title. As new entries come . . .
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April 04, 2007 12:01 PM EDT --
Most of us received the letter from gather.com telling us basically that (a) we didn't make the final 20, and (b) they will do this again. I know most of us are tired and disappointed. . . .
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June 09, 2008 07:59 AM EDT --
This is a slightly modified version of something I wrote in the summer of 1978 when I was amazingly young and the year 2000 seemed a long way off. I set it aside and it sat forgotten in a notebook . . .
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April 05, 2007 09:29 PM EDT --
I had been toying with the idea of doing a book on demand for several years. About four years ago I took the plunge. The concept seemed so logical. Produce just the number of books that people . . .
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July 11, 2008 09:01 PM EDT --
Announcing the top ten entries in the Writing Wombat Slushpile Simulator Contest. And our winner is:
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John L. (springycom)
Today.02
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Jamie . . .
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November 13, 2007 10:24 AM EST --
Excited about the crime contest? Have questions that other contestants can answer? Want to network? This is the place to talk about the contest. It's unofficial, like . . .
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November 13, 2007 10:50 AM EST --
In addition to the official Gather-provided resources for this contest, members and contestants will be doing some things that you may find helpful.
The First Chapters Lounge-Crime Edition . . .
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June 21, 2007 02:32 PM EDT --
I had the opportunity to catch up with both of the supposed villainesses of this story shortly after it happened. What follows is an edited transcript of my interview with the allegedly wicked witch, . . .
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November 13, 2007 10:14 AM EST --
This is a thread designed to help us Crime Contest people get to know each other. It's unofficial, just like everything else in First Chapters Lounge. If you feel comfortable with posting . . .
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March 19, 2007 10:24 AM EDT --
A lot of us have gone through our two week viewing period or about to wind it up. I'm interested in how other contestants experienced the contest. How did it feel as your ratings bounced . . .
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December 25, 2007 09:54 AM EST --
Hi. I just want to get this group started by posting an initial article. Here are some questions/topics for discussion. Take them and run with them if you want to, or ignore them and . . .
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March 15, 2007 09:55 AM EDT --
Anybody who has been on gather for the last month or two has probably heard about the First Chapters writing competition. Frankly Science Fiction doesn't seem to be doing too well over there. . . .
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August 20, 2007 09:30 PM EDT --
Bear Country - Dale R. Cozort
The Exchange . . .
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