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Contest II: Best First Sentence For A Novel About…[CONTEST CLOSED] UPDATE: WINNER ANNOUNCED
April 18th, 2012 | Best First Sentence Contest | journalpulp | 331 Comments
WINNER ANNOUNCED HERE UPDATE: CONTEST CLOSED. The Journal Pulp is offering a $200.00 cash prize for the following: Best first sentence for a novel about a famous atheist-astronomer who one star-sprent summer evening glimpses God in the bottom of his whiskey glass. Rules and guidelines: No outrageous run-ons. You can submit anonymously or under […]
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Best First Sentence Contest [CONTEST CLOSED — WINNER DIRECTLY TO BE ANNOUNCED: UPDATE 2: WINNER ANNOUNCED]
March 22nd, 2012 | Best First Paragraph Contest | journalpulp | 297 Comments
CONTEST CLOSED. WINNER SELECTED. The Journal Pulp is offering a $200.00 cash prize for the following: Best first sentence for a novel about a poet truckdriver who loves the landscape almost as much as he fears the big black rig he sometimes sees in his rear-view mirror the moment before that rig vanishes. Rules […]
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How To Begin Your Story
August 17th, 2011 | Beginnings, Characterization, Plot | journalpulp | 3 Comments
Establish your setting early on. Give us The When, The Where, The Weather — the overall tone. Is your story happy, soft, somber? John Steinbeck does this so well in the beautiful opening of Of Mice and Men: A few miles south of Soledad, the Salinas River drops in close to the hillside bank and […]
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Contest II: Best First Sentence For A Novel About…[CONTEST CLOSED] UPDATE: WINNER ANNOUNCED