Finished reading the 225,000+ words of entries, and I’ve narrowed it down to five finalists and five honorable mentions. All will be revealed tomorrow!
In the meantime, here’s your suspense/chase scene Wordle.net word cloud for all the entries:
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Too funny! This week, our collective blog discussed using Wordle to eliminate lazy words in our manuscripts (with a shout out to you, Nathan! https://yaknow.blogspot.com). We all have "back" problems, so our weekly Your Turn exercise challenged readers to revise a sentence that used "back."
I agree that you are Superman, Nathan. Thanks for the cool contests!
Now you, Nathan, are the master of suspense.
I'm not surprised to see "back" in such bold print.
East coast living is definitely a disadvantage today.
You should post a link to Starbucks on your blog so you can get your coffee for free.
I am sure you guys could work something out, given the amount of the black nectar you must have imbibed to make it through all those entries!
Well done, Nathan!
I'm thinking you could compile all of these entries, pick one name for the main character and change all of them to that, and have a real action-packed novel. And a sequel.
Nathan,
If you could have entered this post in the contest, you would have won hands down, in 38 words (not including the cloud)!
The suspense is killing me . . .
Does reading 225,000 words, and other contest work, take time away from reading queries, partials, and regular old working for your clients?
Or do these contests replace the usual query method (ie., you'll find your next clients from the contest)?
Just wonderin' how you find time to do it all, or if something slips.
Superman indeed!
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Definitely keeping up with everything. I'm up on queries and if one of my clients e-mails me a manuscript during a contest week that comes first. Contests are all in free time.
Well, blast it all. I have to get off the computer now. It won't be until the afternoon before I can get back here.
The suspense will kill ME!
PROUD to be part of the CLOUD
Wordle.net is so cool. I just ran my novel through it and love it.
"Just". One of my personal over-used words. I wonder if other contest entrants have that same problem? On another note, I am totally intrigued by the wordle idea. I think I need to make wordles of everything I've written now… just for the fun of it.