We have less than
one week before Calling All Critiques starts accepting its inaugural
entries! Today I’ll introduce the rules. You can read more
about the event and participating bloggers here: Calling All
Critiques: A Cross-Blog Event and Introducing
Your Hosts.
What to Enter
The schedule for the
weekly critiques is as follows:
- Week of May 26: First 500 word critique
- Week of June 2: Cover art critique
- Week of June 9: Book blurb or query letter critique
For this coming
week, you may submit your first 500 words, finishing at the end of
the sentence. (That is, your entry could be 505 words long …
or 510 words … or 515 words … but let’s not get
too crazy with our run-on sentences, mmkay?)
How to Enter
Starting Saturday,
May 24, 2014 at 6 a.m., submit your entry to Critiques@Saboviec.com.
Cut and paste the following template into your email and fill it in.
Your
name/pseudonym:
Your website (optional):
Title:
Genre (include audience, such as YA/Adult, and category):
Entry:
Your website (optional):
Title:
Genre (include audience, such as YA/Adult, and category):
Entry:
Your email will be
kept confidential. What you submit is what will be posted, so double-
and triple-check your spelling and grammar. (We may correct crazy
formatting errors as a result of email quirks, but still, make sure
it’s clean before you press send.) You may resubmit an entry,
but it goes to the end of the queue: if you submit it past the 35
entry cutoff, you’ll have lost your spot.
Your entry will be
assigned a number in the order in which it was received. Our cutoff
is 35 entries or until 5 p.m. on Sunday, May 25, 2014. Entries 1-7
will be posted on our blogs Monday morning, entries 8-14 will be
posted on our blogs Tuesday morning, etc.
All 35 accepted
entrants will be entered into the prize draw, and the winner will be
chosen by their assigned number through Random.org.
And I will say this
one more time: If you don’t want both positive and negative
feedback, please don’t enter. This event is for us to help
one another grow as authors and maybe to make some friends in the
process.
Some fine print:
Entries that don’t include the above information will be
discarded. At our sole discretion, we may also discard other posts
for reasons such as offensive/distasteful material. Erotica may be
confined only to certain blogs, and we may put an adult content
warning on it.
If You Enter, Please …
Critique other
entrants. The sky’s the limit on how many other entries you
critique, but we ask that you at least provide feedback to four
other participants.
Also, when you
receive feedback on your entry, be gracious if you decide to respond.
I would highly suggest not responding except for perhaps a “thank
you,” but you’re going to do what you’re going to
do, aren’t you? Don’t be defensive or explanatory; these
critiques are for you to improve your writing. Take what you want and
leave the rest behind.
And If You Critique, Please …
Be nice. Be
constructive. Be specific. Be polite.
Mean-spirited or
spam posts will be deleted. General “I love everything about it
and I think you’re the next J.K. Rowling, ZOMG!”
obviously-written-about-your-best-friend comments won’t be
deleted, but that’s tacky. Don’t be tacky.
Less than one week until we begin accepting critiques!
While you wait,
check out all the participating blogs and bloggers:
- (Website not yet live) Before Ink Dries – Mike Verbickas
We look forward to seeing you back here soon.
Any questions? Leave
them in the comments!
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