First of all, congratulations to Heidi Murphy for winning last week's drawing! Heidi, message me at anwaevents at gmail dot com with your address and I'll get the book mailed out to you!
Second, this is our last week of the ANWA SUMMER CHALLENGE! So we are going to do things a little differently. You can enter UP TO THREE TIMES:
- Post your numbers by NEXT SUNDAY
- Post THREE SENTENCES from your work in progress.
- Tell us one writing-related thing you accomplished this summer.
Because this is our last week, of course we have to go out with a bang. So, in addition to having three chances to enter, the winner of our final week's challenge will also win these three items:
- A $10 COLD STONE CREAMERY gift card
- A signed copy of Cindy William's book:
- Peggy Urry's ebook:
GOOD LUCK AND HAPPY WRITING!!!
My numbers for the week: 2384.
ReplyDelete3 sentences from my WIP:
ReplyDeleteOnce again, Slate found himself involved in criminal activity. Slate looked up at Honeycomb Prison, going over his plan in his mind, checking for flaws. There were many, a natural result of having only a few hours to plan a prison break.
This sounds interesting.
DeleteOne writing-related accomplishment of the summer: I finished revising a novella and submitted the first ten pages to an editor.
ReplyDeletemy numbers for the week...1800 words!
ReplyDeleteone writing accomplishment is that I wrote something every single day of this challenge. That is a first for me and I am very encouraged by the progress I made.
ReplyDeleteI wrote two short stories and finished up my manuscript this summer
ReplyDelete3 or maybe 4 sentences: “Adverse selection,” he said, clicking his keyboard so another PowerPoint slide appeared on the large screen at the front of the room, “is when you do business with people you would be better off avoiding.”
ReplyDeleteWhat was that he said? Would it be adverse selection for me to go and try talking to Principal Jordan? Avoiding him probably would be the smarter idea. Oh wait, Mr. Shriver is talking about economics, not my problems, not murder investigations.
Here are my sentences: Her words reminded me of a conversation I had with my cousin Fred. I pointed out that as a burn victim, he knew the meaning of pain beyond anything I had ever experienced. Fred replied, "Yes, but what I really learned is that the greatest pain I have ever felt is what I am feeling at the moment. When I stub my toe, it hurts like the dickens and at that moment, that is the greatest pain I have ever felt."
ReplyDeleteHmm, intriguing.
DeleteMy numbers for the week were 3800 words all in my WIP which I am now going to put in the trash. Sad, but true. But I'm going to start something new! Yay! (Oh, yeah. Some of it was in my journal, which I'm not putting in the trash.)
ReplyDeleteReferees’ whistles pierced the air of the gym. Hailey lifted her orange pom-poms to protect her ears as the team’s center went down. The crowd screamed in horror. (From "School Spirit," my short story entry in the YA paranormal romance anthology "Strange and Lovely" due out October 4th.)
ReplyDeleteI'm interested!
DeleteThis summer I accomplished something exciting. I self-published a book I started writing (again) in May (after setting it aside for 7 years), The Lost Art. I designed the cover, published it, and marketed it as best I could. It made the top 3500 on Kindle! I know that sounds like not much, but when you consider my book BIG IN JAPAN is around #1,600,000, 3500 seems a lot higher. I was really pleased with its success, and it made me want to crank out more fun romance novels in the months to come.
ReplyDeleteWhat! Do not put your work down. That is awesome!!! It gives my courage to keep on going! CONGRATES!! I'm working n finding more trusted proofreaders and editors. Mine is pregnant and sick.
DeleteMy numbers for the week are at 688.
ReplyDeleteThis summer I wrote 31 poems. Booya.
ReplyDelete"With the morning came a renewed sense of purpose for Melissa. She was going to do her best to take care of Megan herself today. She wanted that feeling of euphoria to settle in."
ReplyDeleteGreat accomplishments! Love your examples and your enthusiasm (may it rub off on me...)
ReplyDeleteI got about 8, 052 on my WIP plus two blog posts--probably another 2,500 words or so. This is actually four sentences, but I think I needed all four:
ReplyDeleteThe napkin lay folded where His head had been, the winding bands neatly resting at the foot of the bench.
I looked into every corner.
Nowhere could someone have hidden a body.
The garden tomb was empty of the Son of God.
Ooooooh!
DeleteOh I forgot my writing accomplishment. I finished a book and did most of the edits on my one getting published--all they've asked me for so far, anyway.
ReplyDeleteI only edited this week, but I've written a total of over 20,000 words since this started. Yay!
ReplyDeleteOne line from my works: She just stared at him, elation and devastation written there, both warring over the information just given to her.
ReplyDeleteAnother line, it's my favorite from a conversation: "Next time you decide to thrust a verbal fight at me, do your homework so you actually know what your talking about." With that Jocelyn turned her new wheelchair on a dime and rolled out..
ReplyDeleteNumbers: 3,143
ReplyDeleteA line: "She helped my find myself."
ReplyDeleteTalk about needing an editor "She helped me find myself." Is the line. Yikes!
DeleteAccomplishment is having a a goal to get me back into the love of writing and almost finishing a second novel for editing.
ReplyDeleteIs this done last Saturday or this Saturday?
ReplyDeleteI had to share and did not know where to post. WITH OVER 8000 WORDS I FINISHED MY FIRST DRAFT OF MY SECOND BOOK!!!!! I'm sooooooo excited!!!!
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