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Phenomenal First Pages Contest

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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.

  ▪    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.

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  2. MINDY ALYSE WEISS says

    Thank you all for visiting the Writers Helping Writers blog and entering our monthly contest. Random.org is about to choose the winners. Good luck!

    The lucky winners are:

    Emma

    Cecilia Bamberg

    Joy V Spicer

    Huge congrats! I’ll e-mail instructions to the three of you. 🙂

  10. Marilyn Allison says

    I find your various thesaurus books very helpful and would love to receive your input on my first page.

  11. Deborah says

    First pages are so interesting. I use Scrivener, so I take snapshots of each revision. Later chapters have a few snapshots of the few revisions, but the first chapter has over a hundred snapshots, which means I’ve revised the first chapter over a hundred times. Maybe it’s time to move on?

  17. Doug Fricke says

    Not sure if this is gonna fly. My WordPress account is ancient and was setup for woodworking stuff.

    If this comment makes it through, I’d be delighted to have my ‘First Page’ critiqued.

  23. Jennifer E Wagner says

    Thank you for this great opportunity. Been a email subscriber for months. Unsure how I didn’t realize you’re on FB, too!

  45. Ruth Khan says

    This is such an amazing offer! I could REALLY do with some guidance on my first page! Thank you 🙂