AND! Free CLIMAX Edit #5 goes to Julie Cross, who also wins a Developmental Edit for her entire chapter! Setup 15 year old girl MC being haunted by her forty-year-old Algebra teacher whom she hated and watched die during detention, but has now grown to like. The two discover his… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Julie</em>”
Submitting a Free Edit novel CLIMAX anonymously
For the record, I think we’re all in agreement (yes?) that submitting a novel climax for the Free Edit anonymously is fine. So if you’re hanging back because you’re a little shy, don’t worry about it. I can keep it anonymous for you. Although it would be even better if… Read more“Submitting a Free Edit novel CLIMAX anonymously”
Free CLIMAX Edit: Anonymous
Free CLIMAX Edit #4 goes to someone who asked if they could be anonymous. I don’t mind. Do you guys? Setup Elizabeth is under the control of a warlock who needs to get to her husband, the warlock hunter Anthony, in order to destroy him and complete his (the warlock)… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Anonymous</em>”
Free CLIMAX Edit: Jeff
Free CLIMAX Edit #3 is Jeff’s. . . Setup Jeff didn’t send a setup, and the reason is obvious. Because we can get everything we need to know from his climax. Yeah—that’s pretty vivid writing! Climax The cockpit didn’t go silent, but the noise changed. There had always been a… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Jeff</em>”
Amazing me with your competence
So you guys are kind of blowing me away with your lack of needing Free Edits of your novel Climaxes. I remembered getting a lot more early entries last time. Is it that you have your climaxes just really gorgeously polished? Or is it, as Jordan says with her entry,… Read more“Amazing me with your competence”
Free CLIMAX Edit: Andrew
The intrepid Andrew Rosenberg of Seattle, Iapetus999, gets the FIRST Free CLIMAX Edit! And for having the cojones to throw it out there in front of you all without precedence—to be, in fact, the first at the party, so to speak—he’s going to get a Free Developmental Edit of that… Read more“Free CLIMAX Edit: <em>Andrew</em>”
Free Edit of your novel CLIMAXES
For first two weeks of February, 2010, I’m running a special on Free Edits of Climaxes just like the special of Free Edits of Hooks I ran last August. Only with a couple of differences in the rules to account for the different role a Climax plays in a novel:… Read more“Free Edit of your novel CLIMAXES”
Hook, developing, climaxing
I’ve got my statues against the sky. —Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary HOOK Why do I want to read your novel? Throw it out there before I even ask. What’s in it for me? Because you’re a great storyteller. That’s the only reason that has ever mattered. And you can… Read more“Hook, developing, climaxing”
Eating the omelet
Two more links, and then I’m done with this Amazon-MacMillan-Apple three-way patty-cake until someone—I don’t know what—launches their opponent into outer space on a rocket or something. The Guardian. Yes, that’s in London. Venessa Miemis at Emergent by Design. And I am RIGHT NOW writing the post to announce the… Read more“Eating the omelet”
Free HOOK Edits
The following are free HOOK Edits from August 2009.