Tag: writing
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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January 18, 2009 09:27 PM EST --
If you’ve been around aspiring writers much you know that a good percentage of them produce the writing equivalent of really bad karaoke. You also know that there are undiscovered gems out there. . . .
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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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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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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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January 23, 2009 03:03 PM EST --
Part one looked at how the filters that keep readers from having to sort through a glut of really bad writing are breaking down. Part two looked at how authors and readers can adapt to a world where . . .
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March 29, 2007 09:23 AM EDT --
You've read a lot of First Chapters. What turns you off about an entry? What are the most common errors or problems you see? What do you find yourself telling people over and over . . .
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June 03, 2007 06:40 PM EDT --
The First Chapters Cantest was a Zero Sum game for the most part. Twenty people out of 2000 or more got to the second round. Everyone else lost. Some of us did find . . .
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August 23, 2007 01:30 PM EDT --
This thread should give First Chapters people an unofficial common area to put brief (hopefully no more than a paragraph or two) descriptions of their entries, along with a link to the entry. Think . . .
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August 23, 2007 01:45 PM EDT --
This article is intended as just a place to gather and chat about the contest. A lot of us are going to obsess about it a bit over the next several weeks. Our spouses, kids, friends, and . . .
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September 17, 2007 10:38 AM EDT --
You hear them in front of you or close behind you. Steady. Confident. Like a machine.
Step, step. “I can do this forever. Can you?”
Step, step. “I’m . . .
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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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March 26, 2007 10:19 AM EDT --
A lot of us are waiting around for the First Chapters contest results to be announced. I had an idea that might help us pass the time and maybe help our writing a bit too. It's called . . .
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