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May’s Picture Prompt was illustrated by Kathleen Kemly. She was featured on Illustrator Saturday a feww weeks ago. http://kathytemean.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/illustrator-saturday-kathleen-kemly/
Please use it to help inspire a first page. I will announce the agent who will be out Guest Critiquer next week. Also since I like to give you three weeks to come up with something, I will post four of the pages along with the agents comments on June 1st.
Please attach your double spaced, 12 point font, 23 line first page to an e-mail and send it to kathy(dot)temean(at)gmail(dot)com. Also cut and paste it into the body of the e-mail. Put “May 26th First Page Prompt” in the subject line.
ILLUSTRATORS: Here is your chance to show off a little. I am looking any subject matter as long as it has a few flowers in the illustration. I will post some as they come in during the month, but I will definitely post all by May 31st, so I need to receive your illustrations no later than May 25th. Please make sure the illustration is at least 500 pixels wide and includes a blurb about you and a link to see more of your work. Please send it to kathy(dot)temean(at)gmail(dot)com and put “May Illustration” in the subject box.
Last month I only received two illustrations and both of them are going to be featured on Illustrator Saturday. Hope I will hear from more of you this month, because everyone who visits this blog loves art.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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Yesterday, I put up the information about Anita Nolan and the novel workshop she is planning to do on first pages at the November 5th Free Craft Day. I did not make that clear enough in my post. Oh, it is there now, but for those people who read it early in the day, please realize she only is excepting first pages from writers attending her novel workshop.
Also, I made a mistake with the deadline for the next first page writing prompt. The deadline for the prompt is October 14th.
Here is the current prompt:
____scanned the crowd through….
You should try to weave in some type of atmospheric quality or event.
Results posted on October 14th.
Please attach your double spaced, 12 point font, 23 line first page to an e-mail and send it to kathy(dot)temean(at)gmail(dot)com. Also cut and paste it into the body of the e-mail. Put “October 14th First Page Prompt” in the subject line.
Felicia Sanzari Chernesky will be critiquing the entries. She is a poet, writer, and editor. The managing editor of Academic Questions, a quarterly journal that examines higher education issues, Felicia is halfway through a master’s degree in creative writing in poetry with an emphasis in formal verse. Over the years she’s done all kinds of writing and editing—from authoring a recipe column for a small-town newspaper to copyediting a philosophy manuscript on possibility, necessity, and existence published by a large university press.
Felicia writes children’s poetry, picture books, middle grade, and YA—and loves every minute of it. She also does freelance critiques and copyediting for children’s writers and poets—and loves every minute of that, too. Felicia is represented by Susan Hawk of The Bent Agency.
I will post the top four results and share Felicia’s thoughts with you on Friday, October 21st.
Felicia was one of the authors on the faculty at the Summer’s Conference. She received many kudos from the writers who she critiqued. You will be happy to know she will be on the faculty again this year and helping you improve your writing.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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I know all of you are busy working on the first page prompt from last week to send in for Anita Nolan to critique. Anita will critique up to four submissions and critique them. But since next week we are also having a First Page Session in Princeton and another in November. I thought I would share some tips to use when writing a first page to be read at a First Page Session or with a writing prompt.
I know you are saying anyone can write a first page, but a first page for a FP Session is longer than what is submitted with a novel. Standard formatting has writers start their first page over half way down the page, but with a first page prompt or session, you start your story at the top of the page with a title and the genre. This gives you more time to write and hook the reader. If you don’t, the editor, agent or judge has more time to decide not to turn the page.
Okay, so what is the trick to writing a good first page. Here are some tips:
1. Start with a hook.
2. Spend extra time on the first sentence or two. Richard Peck says you are only as good as your first line.
3. Convey the theme that will be woven throughout the book.
4. Set the tone of the book. Humorous, fantasy, etc.
5. Introduce your protagonist.
6. Make sure the tone and text reflects the age level of the protagonist.
7. Make sure the reader has an idea of where your novel is heading.
8. Most editors will say they would like to know the name of the protagonist on the first page.
9. Avoid including back story on the first page.
10. Try to end the first page with something that will have the reader wanting to flip the page.
11. If you have written your page and it goes over the 23 lines to get to that place where the reader is dying to flip the page, ask yourself the following questions for these places to cut:
A. Are there extra words I can eliminate?
B. Have I spent too much time setting the scene.
C. Is there any place where someone could say I dumped too much
information?
D. Do I have any back story I could nix? Avoid Back story on the
first page.
E. Did you introduce too many characters? Are they all neccessary?
Here is the prompt:
_____ had never given much thought to….
or
_____ never thought about…
You can use either one, but weather should factor into your first page somehow.
Deadline: September 23rd.
September 30th: Results Posted
Make sure you put “September First Page Blog Submission” in the subject area. Email them to: kathy(dot)temean(at)gmail(dot)com.
Please use standard format: One inch margins, double space, 12 pt Times New Roman Font, 23 lines of text.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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I’m missing the option of being able to do your first page prompts, Kathy! It seems the two recent ones are of children gazing toward the heavens. Is this indicative of something? Perhaps the longing of having time to have our heads in the clouds?! lol
Wow. Cant wait to get started on this prompt.