This week’s 15 seconds of inspiration might take you 30
seconds,
but it’ll be worth your time: Here’s a fun opportunity!
At Women’s Memoirs, Pamela Jane Bell, Kendra Bonnett,
and Matilda Butler have announced a contest for both women and men. (If you’re a man and you doubt whether you can enter, read the comments at that link.)
They invite you to submit one paragraph—your opening
paragraph—for their current contest. Entries, due September 3, should be around
150 words. Click here to learn more, and be sure to check out those prizes!
If the thought of entering a contest makes you want to run
the opposite direction, click here for a pep talk.
A book’s opening is the most important part to write well: From
sentence one, your job is catch your readers’ attention, draw them in, and entice
them to keep reading.
Thursday I’ll share tips on editing, rewriting, and making
that paragraph sparkle. For now, look over your manuscripts (you have a number
of them in rough draft, right?) and select one to polish for the contest.
Be sure to come back Thursday!
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