Monday, February 27, 2012

First Line Grabber: Round One Winners

The following 15 entries garnered the most YES votes on their first lines:

1
2
6
8
11
13
15
16
17
18
22
23
25
28
29

Congratulations!  HERE IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN ROUND TWO:

  • EMAIL your FIRST 3 SENTENCES to me at authoress.submissions(at)gmail.com.
  • Important: Follow the formatting EXACTLY as shown below!
  • Also important: Please submit THE SAME FIRST SENTENCE as you entered in Round One.  The YES votes you received were based on the sentence AS IS, and NOT an edited version!
  • You will have until Tuesday at 6 pm EST to send your sentences.  Because, yanno, I will need to time check formatting, etc.
The formatting:

SCREEN NAME: (type it here, and don't neglect the colon)
TITLE: (type it here, and don't neglect the colon) 
GENRE: (type it here, and don't neglect the colon)

(Type your first 3 sentences here. Please do not include more than 3 sentences)

ALSO VERY IMPORTANT:

If your novel is a WIP (work in progress) and is NOT a completed manuscript, PLEASE include "WIP" after your title!  Like this:

TITLE: Crawling Between Porcupine Toes (WIP)

Please post your questions below!

5 comments:

  1. Because not all lines get the same amount of reads, would the largest PERCENTAGE of yesses be a more accurate way to gauge their success?

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  2. I was wondering that too, but then I examined my own commenting habits. I read every entry, but didn't have time to comment on all 30. Instead, I voted YES on the ones I really liked, and commented on maybe 5 or 6 others as time permitted.

    If people voted yes and let their silence on the other entries serve as a no, then using percentages would not be accurate as there's no way to know how many people read it and didn't like it.

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  3. I really enjoyed reading all the first lines. Thanks Authoress for another great contest, and congrats to all winners!!

    The contest has left 2 lingering thoughts with me:

    1) I wonder if reactions would've been the same if we'd been unable to read everyone else's. Because I have to admit, some of my opinions were slightly swayed when reading other people's good points. It shouldn't be that way, but I'm not gonna lie - it did happen to me once or twice ;)

    2) I'd love to know how much weight a first line carries with agents, because I would imagine, in most if not all cases, agents are going to read the first page, first 20 pages, first 3 chapters, etc.

    Anyhow, all good food for thought. Really made me think about my first lines, and the feedback was so varying yet helpful, I think (for the most part of what I've read). Good work, everyone!

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  4. Congrats to everyone, and good luck in the next step of the contest!! I really enjoyed reading the first lines!

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