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Fun Writing Contest
Posted on June 21st, 2010 6 commentsHurry! The clock is ticking.
You have less than 36 hours to write 100 words that will dazzle literary agent Janet Reid (AKA The Query Shark). The sticky wicket of the matter is, as Janet says, you need to include these words:
Lucky
Crash
Number
Oregano
SlevinBonus points if you can seamlessly incorporate:
Keith Kahla, Editor to the stars
Think you can do it?
What will you win? Other than HUGE bragging rights (of course)… you will take home the audio version of the thriller Crashers by Dana Haynes. The reviews sound fantastic. It’s about the people, ‘crashers,’ who go to plane crash sites to figure out why planes crashed. Some have said it’s like a pile of 24 episodes in one book. Sweet.
So don’t enter, because I want to win by default. Okay? Please. I don’t care if the victory will be less sweet because I didn’t beat out over three hundred contestants. I want to win it because I will be spending a heck of a lot of time (8000kms worth of hours–that’s 5000 miles for those who think in miles–) in the car this summer and don’t want to listen to CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) all the time. (No offense to CBC. Well, okay, maybe a little.) So out of sympathy for me, don’t enter, okay?
But if you do, good luck!
6 responses to “Fun Writing Contest”
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Oooo – 8000k of CBC – you have my sympathy!
Sounds like a fun contest. I usually don’t do these because of the whole lack of time thing, but we’ll see …
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There are lots of entries already. (No big surprise there.) I think she’s going to have a tough time choosing!
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Sounds fun. Too bad I’m late to the game and extremely busy. We used to do this with my writer’s group, once upon a time.
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That WAS a fun contest – thanks for posting about it. I have no idea about what agents will like – I didn’t think the winners she chose were good at all, compared to some of the others.
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Cool… a writing group that does fun contests! Neat-o.
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Isn’t that funny, Layinda? I thought the same thing. I figured those entries had something that tied back to something in her life, or hit her funny bone for some personal reason. Oh, well. 8000km of CBC for me….
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Jemi Fraser June 21st, 2010 at 19:30