Day 197

Did it:

Julie--two pages

Day 196

Did it:

Julie--two pages, even though I'm on vacation.

Day 195

Did it: Elena

Cami

Julie--wrote a query, didn't send it to a real person yet

Day 194

Did it:

Mary


Didn't:

Cami--I finished typing everything I've written by hand this summer, but I didn't actually go on from there.

Day 193

Did it:

Cami--and when I read through what I wrote yesterday, it wasn't as bad as I thought.

Mary 

Elena - I am back and (more importantly) my computer is back and actually works. This is a miracle. And I think I figured out my ending.

Day 192

Did it:

Cami-- My creativity is lacking. Everything I am writing is going to need some serious rewriting.

Mary - I actually wrote today - I'm so pleased with myself.

Day 191

Did it:

Julie--wrote the climax scene that I've been dreading for over two years. And it was anticlimactic (pun totally intended).
Cami

Day 190

Did it:

Julie--6 pages!


Didn't: Cami--I spent my time typing up all the pages I've been scribbling out by hand.
Way to go, Julie!

Day 189

Did it:

Cami--This is extra credit for writing on a Saturday. I wrote my page yesterday too, but I was too busy to report.
Julie--Wrote on my laptop on my way to Vegas.

Day 188

Did it:

Julie--I wrote two pages which I ended up cutting immediately, and also deciding to cut out that entire subplot. Maybe I'm just being lazy, but I'll finish the book and then decide if it needs to be in there......

Cami

Day 187

Did it:
Julie

Day 186

Did it:
Julie--well, I'm rounding up

Day 185

Didn't:

Cami--busy day

Critique help

So I ran into another contest the other day which opens July 12, and it is for the first 250 words of your manuscript. You are supposed to have a finished manuscript finished to enter. I'm not sure I will be done in time, but I am not exactly counting on winning so I am not sure it matters. Anyway, here are all the submission guidelines if anyone else is interested.


If anyone has a minute, can you look at my first 250 words? Contest, or not, I think the first page is critical, so I would appreciate any feedback. THANKS!!

Genre: YA paranormal
Title: Lost and Found

Her mother was insane. Completely, totally, and should be institutionalized no questions asked. Because only if she were Glinda the Good Witch of the North, then the dress she was currently and unsuccessfully zipping up in the back could be considered in any way warranted. But as she was just an average sixteen year old with absolutely no intention of going to junior prom...

"Nonsense dear. Everyone goes to prom. And you're sadly mistaken if you think pink hair is normal."

Oops, she'd said that out loud. Ellie yanked on the zipper again but didn't have the leverage to get it the rest of the way up. Oh how she couldn't wait to get out of this store. The musty smell of used, unwashed clothing turned her stomach. Not that she didn't appreciate vintage, she did. But this particular store would have been more appropriately named Grandma's Underwear Drawer.

"It doesn't fit. Can we go now?"

"Wait, come out and let me see it."

Ellie held the back of the white satin together with her left hand and opened the peeling dressing room door with the other. She was greeted with a gasp and jaw drop so large she was sure she could fit a Big Mac into it. There was a reason her dad gave her mother a keychain for Christmas last year that flashed Drama Queen in pink lights.

Day 184

Did it:

Cami

Day 183

Did it:
Julie--six pages, baby!
Cami--Good job, Julie

Day 182

Didn't:
Julie
Cami-writing in summer is hard.