Choose Your Weapon Contest
Jul172010
Over on Cherry Forums, we’re giving away copies of Maybe This Time as first and second prize in a (short) writing contest:
Choose Your Weapon Writing Exercise Contest
The Preamble: “In books and in life, choice of weapons often differ depending on if you’re a man or a woman … a woman who picks up a frying pan or a lid or a hall rail is something I understand …”
The Task (thanks to Forest Jane):
. Write 150 – 200 words (a mini scene) showing your hero or heroine using that object to defend herself or kill someone.
. Post in the Choose Your Weapon Writing Exercise Contest Thread in the Writing Craft forum by August 1.
. Voting will take place the following week. (We’re not sure how yet.)
Prizes
In addition to being declared a Cherry Winner, Jenny has generously offered an ARC of Maybe This Time for the runner up, and a hardcover copy of Maybe this Time to the winner. The hardcover copy should arrive slightly before the release date, but no guarantees.Have fun unleashing your inner killer!
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26 Comments to 'Choose Your Weapon Contest'
On July 17, 2010 at 11:49 am Eve said...
WoW, that’s so cool!
))) thanks! (you know what the biggest prize is? is that you’d have to read it by association). How many scenes can we submit?
On July 17, 2010 at 1:36 pm Jenny said...
I am merely a conduit of info. Go to Cherry Forums and ask. They know all.
On July 17, 2010 at 1:57 pm Eve said...
registered, waiting to log in. thanks
On July 17, 2010 at 6:18 pm Jenny said...
Thank you for registering. And playing.
On July 17, 2010 at 11:56 am toni said...
Totally OT — but Jenny, you might enjoy Alex’s analysis of why mysteries/thrillers need to have romance in them over here–she does an interesting breakdown of story elements every-other-Saturday:
Here
On July 17, 2010 at 11:01 pm Clever Cherry aka Judy Long said...
OT but I just today finished the Bobbie Faye series toni & I loved it!
On July 18, 2010 at 11:05 pm toni said...
Aw, thank you, Judy! I just saw this.
Made my day!
On July 17, 2010 at 12:28 pm Skye said...
Cool! Fun!
Um, there is a bit of a misplaced modifier happening: “In addition to being declared a Cherry Winner, Jenny has”. I doubt it’s Jenny who who is potentially being declared a winner. Ahem. Technical writing and editing has it’s social drawbacks, you see.
On July 17, 2010 at 1:35 pm Jenny said...
You’re right. I’ll go beat up Gin. She’s a lawyer.
On July 17, 2010 at 2:49 pm KellyJ said...
Sounds like fun. Now I have to make a list of creative lethal weapons.
On July 17, 2010 at 4:42 pm Skye said...
My inner killer is salivating at the idea of a villain/monster that probably most on the Forums have never heard of (anyone read Lovecraft in these parts?). I fear it will have a most deleterious effect upon my chances.
On July 17, 2010 at 6:19 pm Jenny said...
I’ve read Lovecraft. You’d be amazed how much crossover there is between horror and romance. Really the same genre when you come to think of it.
On July 17, 2010 at 8:49 pm Deborah Blake said...
“Really the same genre when you come to think of it.” Snort. Clearly you are familiar with my dating history.
On July 18, 2010 at 1:21 am Skye said...
Yeah, pretty sure I’ve dated more than one of the evil Old Ones in my time.
On July 17, 2010 at 5:32 pm GatorPerson said...
Are you gonna read this, since you’ve posted Krissie’s new book? I hope so.
Really BIG question: I’ve just finished The Turn of the Screw (yeah, so’s I’d be ready for YOUR version). Is your version going to be a romcom?
On July 17, 2010 at 6:26 pm Jenny said...
No, GP, I move on and never look back.
Actually, I read most of the comments on the dashboard, so I read them in the order they’re submitted no matter what post they go on. You can comment on something 500 posts ago and I’ll get it. I’m here for you, baby.
So is Maybe This Time a romcom? I’m not sure. Most of criticism has come because the story seems to read as more of a ghost story than a romance, and the romance that’s there is a subplot. I really didn’t think of it as primarily a ghost story because that wasn’t what I was interested in; to me it was Andie’s journey at the center, so it’s women’s fiction. That’s also how I’d describe Faking It, by the way. When I read it again in galleys, it struck me that it’s really Andie and Alice’s story, that she finds her way back by having to ante up and bring Alice back, that whatever fears and cowardice she might have about committing to anything–jobs, her mother, her ex-husband–were overwhelmed by how much Alice needed her. She was still afraid, but she couldn’t let Alice and Carter fall, so she grew up. And as she grew up, the Guy got smarter so he deserved her in the end.
If we were doing it on PopD, it wouldn’t be a rom com. Does that help?
On July 17, 2010 at 5:51 pm Deborah Blake said...
Fun! I may play…
Speaking of fun, I just bought my reissue copies of TELL ME LIES and CRAZY FOR YOU. I won’t lie; they’re crazy beautiful!
On July 17, 2010 at 6:26 pm Jenny said...
YAY! We were hoping they’d really pop on the shelf.
On July 17, 2010 at 8:51 pm Deborah Blake said...
They did! In fact, they popped right into my bag. (After I’d paid for them, of course.)
On July 17, 2010 at 6:16 pm Deborah Blake said...
Just posted mine. It came out so well, now I’m wondering what else to do with it…
On July 17, 2010 at 6:26 pm Jenny said...
I did a twenty-six sentence writing exercise once that turned into Crazy For You.
On July 17, 2010 at 8:52 pm Deborah Blake said...
That’s just…crazy
But this came out all creepy. I don’t normally write creepy. Hmmm….
*wanders off looking all writerly*
On July 17, 2010 at 10:53 pm Kelly S said...
If I had any ability to write, I’d participate. Maybe I can convince my hubby to submit something. Would it be wrong of me to wish he’d win 2nd place so I could get the arc now instead of waiting?
On July 17, 2010 at 11:48 pm Jenny said...
I was thinking about that. That if we had an extra ARC we should just end one to each, and then the winner got the hardcover when it came out. I just don’t know if we have one. Also, we might actually have advance copies by the time the contest ends. Nobody knows.
On July 17, 2010 at 11:07 pm Clever Cherry aka Judy Long said...
I so need this. Lani / Lucy that horrible revisionists taskmaker (joking – I learned so much from that class I can never be appreciative enough) made me rewrite my climax anchor scene and now my protagaonist has to fight with the villainess to save herself from being eaten by a bear.
Never wrote anything remotely like that. Weapons eh? This is going to be fun!
On July 18, 2010 at 9:32 am Deborah Blake said...
Clever Cherry,
Over on my paranormal writers’ loop (the writing is paranormal, not the writers…as far as I know), The Creativity Cauldron, one of our members is giving a seriously detailed kick-ass workshop of writing fight scenes. If you want to join in, just shoot me an email and I’ll send you an invite to the loop. (The workshop is free.)