Hey, wonderful writerly people! It’s time for our monthly first-page critique contest 🙂
This contest is closed. Please try again next month. If you’d like to be notified when the next one goes live, consider subscribing to the blog (in the sidebar).
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/comment profile is up-to-date, I’ll be able to contact you if your first page is chosen. Just please know that if I’m unable to get in touch with you through that address, you’ll have to forfeit your win.
Two caveats:
▪ Please be sure your first page (double-spaced in 12-point font) 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. Resources for common problems writers encounter in their opening pages can be found here.
▪ This contest only runs for 24 hours, start to finish, so get your comment in there!
Three commenters’ names will be randomly drawn and posted tomorrow morning. If you win, you can email me your first page and I’ll offer my feedback.
We run this contest on a monthly basis, so if you’d like to be notified when the next opportunity comes around, consider subscribing to our blog (see the right-hand sidebar).
Best of luck!
PS: If you want to amp up your first page, grab our helpful First Pages checklist from One Stop for Writers. And for more instruction on these important opening elements, see this Mother Lode of First Page Resources.
Becca Puglisi is an international speaker, writing coach, and bestselling author of The Emotion Thesaurus and its sequels. Her books are available in five languages, are sourced by US universities, and are used by novelists, screenwriters, editors, and psychologists around the world. She is passionate about learning and sharing her knowledge with others through her Writers Helping Writers blog and via One Stop For Writers—a powerhouse online library created to help writers elevate their storytelling.
Thank you all for entering! Fingers crossed as Random.org chooses the winners…
Huge congrats to:
Jennifer L Raudenbush
Tanya Brooking
Marie Powell
I’ll send the three of you an e-mail with details about your critique with Becca soon.
We’ll be back next month with another chance to win a critique!
I’d like to submit, please.
Absolutely count me in!
Here I am, trying again… thanks for keeping this opportunity open!
Would love the opportunity to have my first page critiqued!
Thanks for giving me the opportunity for you to read my first page!
I’m in! I will submit a first page. Thank you!
FIRST PAGE CONTEST
ICE MAKER
(Edited to delete your first page and let you know you’re entered in the contest by leaving a comment. I’ll contact the three winners and ask them to send me their first pages as a Word file, so I can forward them to Becca. Good luck!)
Hurrah for phenomenal phirst pages!
I’m excited to enter!
I get panic attacks when I’ve mislaid The Emotion Thesaurus. Not trying to bribe you, just telling the truth.
I would appreciate a critique of my first page. Thanks. (I’m already on your mailing list.)
Yes, this would be awesome!
Hoping for a chance!
Glad to see this feature again. I would love a critique of my current WIP’s first page.
So happy to see you first pages critique is back!
PS I’m already on your mailing list 🙂
Oo, exciting!!! 😀 The first page of my current WIP… erm… needs a LOT of work. XDDD (Historical romantic suspense, set in 1947.) It’s funny how I thought it was so good when I first wrote it. 😂 Honestly, I can’t wait to get to work on it.
What a wonderful opportunity! Any critique from you would be welcomed!
Great offer and opportunity. Unfortunately I don’t use WordPress, my site is on Squarespace.
Hi. I’d appreciate feedback and hope to hear from you. Thanks for the opportunity.
Your feedback for my first page in my first memoir on Caregiving of the Mind would be a treasure.
Susan S.
I just started a new book and would love a first page critique. Thanks so much for offering this!
I’d love to get your feedback on my first page. Locked, loaded, and ready to send. Thanks!
Yes, I need feedback. Thank you for the opportunity.
*I’m on your mailing list.
I’d love the feedback. I’m in 🙂
Thanks for offering this service! I use WHW and One Stop and often recommend them to others.
I’d love your input!
I would like to enter!
Hoping to win.
Thank you!!
I would love the feedback. Count me in 🙂
What a great opportunity! Thanks so much for offering.
Please count me in.
Thank you for the chance!
I would love to submit my first page it has been changed several times. Thanks!
Count me in, please! Thanks for the opportunity.
I’m in!
Thank you for the chance!
Hello.
I’m really anxious for your feedback. contemporary romance
Thanks for the opportunity! I look forward to the monthly contest. 😊
I’d like to submit a first page for the contest. Thanks.