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Critiques 4 U!

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Are the seasons turning where you are? I sure hope so. Change is often stressful, but a change in climate is usually a good thing. It’s one thing I love about living where I do—getting all four seasons instead of ten months of OH MY WORD, I’M MELTING!

Another welcome change is getting new reading material when the well has run dry. For me, that means…

CRITIQUES 4 U!

CONTEST CLOSED!

If you’re working on a first page (in any genre except erotica) and would like some objective feedback, please leave a comment. Any comment :). As long as the email address associated with your WordPress account is up-to-date, I’ll be able to contact you if you win. Just please know that if I’m unable to get in touch with you through that address, I’ll have to choose an alternate winner.

Two caveats:

  • Please be sure your first page is ready to go so I can critique it before next month’s contest rolls around. If it needs some work and you won’t be able to get it to me right away, let me ask that you plan on entering the next contest, once any necessary tweaking has been taken care of.
  • I’d like to be able to use portions of winning submissions as illustrations in an upcoming presentation I’m creating on first pages. By entering the Critiques 4 U contest, you’ll be granting permission for me to use small writing samples only (no author names or book titles).

Three commenters’ names will be randomly drawn and posted tomorrow. If you win, you can email me your first page and I’ll offer my feedback. Best of luck!

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Comments

  2. Karla Diaz says

    Oh, wow! Thank you so much. I’m so excited and grateful for this amazing opportunity. Thanks from the bottom of my heart!

  3. BECCA PUGLISI says

    Ok, the winners for this round are…

    Lois Simenson
    Karla Diaz
    Susan Peelish

    Thanks so much for entering, everyone! I’ll see you next month :).

  4. Lois Simenson says

    I’ve rewritten my first page so many times I’ve curled into a fetal position at the thought of even reading it again 🙂 If someone else would look at it I would be so grateful 🙂 Thank you!

  5. Karla Diaz says

    Thank you for this great opportunity to get a first page critique from you. Hope I’m one of the chosen ones :).

  8. Stacy C. says

    The season has already turned where I am and it’s hot, hot, hot! What a wonderful opportunity, thank you!

  12. Blaine says

    Thank you for doing this 🙂

    As for the seasons… it’s been a bit hot/cold/hot/cold lately.
    Sometimes on the same day.
    I prefer not too hot, not too cold, but there doesn’t seem to be a perfect setting 😉

  17. Leila says

    <3 the emotion thesaurus! Would spend much more time pontificating over how to show emotions without it as a reference! 🙂

  24. Stephanie Ward says

    This is truly wonderful! Your generosity confirms the kind heart I witnessed in your class at Storymakers. Thanks, you two, for all the help and love you give to the writing community.

  25. Ian Worrall says

    An awesome way to help, certainly living up to the title of your website, Writers Helping Writers. Good luck to everyone, and congratulations to whoever ends up winning

  27. Brenda Jenkins Kleager says

    Thanks for such useful information. I use the free downloads when planning my novels and I have most of the books. Whooo-hooo!

  28. Lorrie de la Mata says

    How exciting to have our first pages critiqued. Best of luck to us all.