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Contest Deadlines

February 5, 2011 by Marianne H. Donley in category Archives tagged as contests, deadlines

February Contest Deadlines

Updated and all sites tested…Compiled by Donna Caubarreaux….May be forwarded with credits.
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EA = Electronic Format Available
EA/Non US = Electronic for Foreign Entries
EO = Electronic Only
MO = Members Only
U = Unpublished
P = Published
P/3 = Not published in three years
Pnr = Published, but not by RWA standards
PC = Not published in category selected

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Stroke of Midnight Contest (U – PC – EO)
Passionate Ink
Received by February 7, 2011 (Extended)
First thirty-five pages. (at least 10K words)
http://www.passionateink.org/contests/#unpublished
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The Shelia (EO – U – P/5)
Valley Forge Romance Writers
Deadline: February 11, 2011
Total of 35 pages, includes synopsis (not to exceed five pages)
http://www.vfrw.com/

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The Sandy (U – EO)
Crested Butte Writers
Deadline: Midnight – February 13, 2011
First twenty pages and up to two page synopsis.
http://thesandy.org/sandy.php
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Between the Sheets
Greater Detroit RWA
Deadline: February 14, 2011
Entries shall include a ten-page love scene (sweet to erotic) and a one-page
unjudged set-up.
http://www.gdrwa.org/contests…html
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2011 Manuscript Contest
Writers’ League of Texas
Deadline: February 15, 2011 (Postmarked or Delivered by 6:00 PM)
One page synopsis (250 words) and first ten pages (2500 words).
http://www..writersleague.org/contests/manuscript.html
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Fire and Ice (U – P/5)
Chicago-North RWA
Received by February 16, 2011
First twenty-five pages.
http://www.chicagonorthrwa.org/contest.shtml
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Jeannie Gray Golden Frendship Award (U – Golden Heart Entrants)
GH99er Loop
Received by Midnight EST on February 18, 2011
250-300 word essay. Topic is on website.
http://jeannieaward.wordpress.com/
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PNWA Literary Contest (U – EO for romance entries)
Pacific Northwest Writers Association
Received by February 18, 2011
Twenty-eight page limit which includes synopsis.
http://www.pnwa.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=6
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Donna Caubarreaux is a member of Coeur de Louisiane, Scriptscene Chapter, NOLA Stars, Heart of Louisiana, and Kiss of Death. She received a RWA Service Award in 1997

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Incubating and the Writer’s Cave

October 28, 2010 by A Slice of Orange in category Archives tagged as deadlines, writing process

I tend to be reluctant to sit down in front of the keyboard to write until the deadline is breathing down my neck. I always thought this was procrastination, but I read an article a little while ago that makes me realize that Iâ€™m not a procrastinator. Iâ€™m an incubator.

Whatâ€™s an incubator? Someone who thinks about the story for a long timeâ€”incubating itâ€”until itâ€™s ready to come out in one huge burst. My subconscious works on the story as I go about my ordinary life, as if Iâ€™ve put a stew on the back burner to simmer and am adding ingredients to it all day long. Then suddenly the stew is done and the story needs to get on the page. Thatâ€™s when I crawl into my writerâ€™s cave, sit down and start writing. Am compelled to write, just like contractions compel a mother to push during childbirth.

The writerâ€™s cave is more mental than physical, though it does help to have a physical space where you can retreat to get the work done. This might be an office or corner in your home or maybe somewhere like Starbucks or the bookstore or wherever works for you. It helps if the cave is the same physical space every time, signaling your brain that when you go there, itâ€™s time to write. I also end up clearing my calendar of all optional social engagements so I can just crawl into the cave without fear of interruption and give birth to my story.

I would love to be one of those people who plot out a book and then sit down every day and write X number of pages or such-and-such a scene, but that isnâ€™t how I work. I need all those weeks to let the story form in my mind so it comes out organically in one long burst. Once I reach that point, I am able to accomplish a substantial amount of pages per day. Since the story is fully formed, I also tend to do very little rewriting before I send in the book. This is what works for me. Itâ€™s my process. Whatâ€™s yours?

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