Results of our First Meeting Challenge are in!
Our team of editors randomly selected five of your first meeting entries. Here are their critiques! We enjoyed seeing those sparks fly and hope you’ll keep going on your writing journeys.
Thank you for submitting all your fabulous first meetings!
Best Laid Plans by Lindsay Larson
Holiday Fling to Wedding Ring by Narelle Buxton
Out of Her Comfort Zone by Judy Yi
Smoldering Flames by Kimmie Ferrell
If you entry wasn’t critiqued here (we are only so many editors), you still have time to enter our final challenge!
Challenge Three: The 100-Word Pitch
Send in a 100-word pitch for your story by 10 am EST Friday, September 18 and you may be one of 5 entries randomly chosen to receive personalized feedback at 2 pm EST from our editors!
Email: ucanwrite@harlequin.ca, subject line “PITCH Challenge.” Entry can be no more than 100 words. (Your pitch is your story in a nutshell, showing off your romantic leads, plot, and hooks in order to pique the editors’ and voters’ interest!)
Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #SYTYCW15, and follow @HarlequinSYTYCW.
4 replies on “Today’s Challenge Results: First Meeting Feedback”
Congratulations to all of you for having your First-Meeting entries selected for critique — well done! 🙂
Congrats on those chosen! I loved all of them and would have kept reading all five of the books!
The 18th is Saturday, not Friday. Is that what you meant?
Sorry. I am in a different time zone and looked at the wrong date for it. (Feeling foolish.)
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I spent the entire shutdown working. Had no time to wind down. I didn’t see my son much when school shutdown. My one co worker was told to stay home for 3 weeks so I picked up her hours. This year has been really crappy.
Ugh, Janell. Here’s hoping the rest of your summer is better.
Thanks for the info, Carol! Everyone is different in how they deal with the shutdown! I stay at home all the time since I don’t work so I haven’t been too effected but my shopping and errands sure have been effected!
Valri, I’ve been doing most of my shopping online. My local Target is still low on some items – mostly cleaning supplies. Grocery store is pretty much back to normal. Most of the dining in our town is outdoor. I can’t imagine have school-age kids!
Wow–getting your creative process on track must have been daunting–especially with “extra-large dog” glad to have you home. You don’t like coffee–I love coffee and have enjoyed my fortifying 2 cups in the morning even more than usual! How as COVID affected your story lines and characterizations? Best Wishes for all releases!
Interesting question, Virginia. You’ll have to tell me if the tone of my “COVID” books changed any! LOL
Life has changed so much! My dad passed Feb 2. The assisted living facility my folks were at went into hardcore lockdown the beginning of March. Mom couldn’t leave her apartment for 4 months! She was on the third floor, Will be 89 in two months & doesn’t use the phone. My husband and I remodeled the lower level completely and moved her in with us July 1. What a life change and difficult transition for the 3 of us! But we’re working thru it!