Brenda Drake (http://www.brenleedrake.blogspot.com/) offers an It Was a Dark and Stormy Night Blogfest Contest. The winner receives a critique of the first 50 pages of his/her manuscript from Weronika Janczuk from the D4EO Agency (the agency, by the way, that gave me a kind rejection for one of my works in the past).
Unfortunately, I am quite the last-minute being by posting this to my blog the night before the “assignment” is due. Here’s the deal:
Post the first line of a finished manuscript on the blog. Get critiques from followers. Give critiques to participants. Polish and post the first line on February 9th.
Here it is. Drumroll please…
Emergency lights throbbed atop the ambulance, yet there was no sound.
Feel free to offer all forms of critique and suggestions.
Hello my friend! Welcome to the fest. I hope you get some good feedback.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it odd having to stand on a single line?
I like your first line, an ambulance is always a harbinger. A silent one makes me sad. I wish I knew who was doing the observing of the ambulance and what their reaction was to it. But, I am sure that might be in the next few lines.
Good luck with the contest!
Corinne