The 1st Annual
Complete Your Draft Contest!!
Contest is brought to you by Les Trois Graces in association with Tuesday Night Chatters.
Rules*:
* By signing up, you agree to these rules. Rules may be subject to change at any time, but notice will be given 24 hours in advance. No monetary compensation is required for joining the contest.
Prizes**:
** Contest organizer is not responsible for lost or misdirected mail. Prizes will be sent by e-mail or ground mail, depending on item. Neither signing up, nor completing a draft will guarantee that a prize will be awarded.
† Contest organizer is still waiting to hear about a couple other possible prizes. Please check back throughout the month for details!
Extras:
Have fun! Write, write, write! Good luck. :D
Complete Your Draft Contest!!
Contest is brought to you by Les Trois Graces in association with Tuesday Night Chatters.
Rules*:
- Contest is open to any writer at any stage (first-timer, agented-but-not-yet-published, or published authors; also hobbyists, etc.) to encourage the completion of a first draft or writing project.
- Contest is open internationally.
- Contest officially begins June 1, 2009 and will end at 23:59 (your local time as time-stamped by your e-mail provider) June 30, 2009.
- Contest requires a .txt document be sent to LTGcontests [at] gmail [dot] com for word count confirmation. Once counted, the document will be deleted. This will be done twice. Once when you sign up and again on June 30th.
- To be included, please leave a comment on this post (let me know where you heard about it too). Everyone signed up on this post is in! Send your .txt document to the address above no more than 24 hours after commenting (or viewing this entry).
- Those who sign up as novelists must write at least 25k new words, which is half of what NaNoWriMo requires in a month. Those that sign up as poets must write at least 1k new words. Please feel free to contact me, as this is open to discussion based on your project!
* By signing up, you agree to these rules. Rules may be subject to change at any time, but notice will be given 24 hours in advance. No monetary compensation is required for joining the contest.
Prizes**:
- Prizes will be awarded no later than July 14, 2009 (Bastille Day!).
- Prizes include†:
- $10 iTunes gift card
- $20 amazon.com gift card
- One chapter critique by me on ANY project of winner's choosing
- Custom designed web banner by the amazingly talented Tara Kelly (
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- A signed copy of Linda Gerber's new-release Death by Denim
- A signed copy of Charity Tahmaseb & Darcy Vance's new book, The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading
- A signed copy of Melissa Walker's, Lovestruck Summer
- A signed copy of Something Maybe by Elizabeth Scott
- A signed copy of Earrings of Ixtumea by Kim Baccelli (kbaccelli)
- Your choice of a critique on your query, or a copy of The Dangerous Book for Demon Slayers, or this t-shirt from NYT best-selling author, Angie Fox
- $10 iTunes gift card
- All winners will be entered into a random drawing for above prizes.
- Contest winners will be announced no later than July 4, 2009.
** Contest organizer is not responsible for lost or misdirected mail. Prizes will be sent by e-mail or ground mail, depending on item. Neither signing up, nor completing a draft will guarantee that a prize will be awarded.
† Contest organizer is still waiting to hear about a couple other possible prizes. Please check back throughout the month for details!
Extras:
- Points will be awarded for the following:
- Spreading the word on your blog, discussion board, or website.
- Getting a friend to sign up and successfully complete their draft.
- Donating a prize.
- Spreading the word on your blog, discussion board, or website.
- Points can be traded in if word count is not met by June 30th.
Have fun! Write, write, write! Good luck. :D
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