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Take the five percent challenge!

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If you could get a professional opinion on the first five percent of your fiction piece for no charge other than filling out a questionnaire, would you dare to send it in?

Do you have the confidence in your writing to risk absolutely nothing except having someone give an honest opinion?

If the answer is yes, then take the five percent challenge. Send me the first five percent of your finished work and get free, in depth suggestions about your piece. In return for a simple questionnaire report card on how helpful you felt my suggestions were, you get professional editing at no charge.

Is your fiction ready for an editor? There’s only one way to find out.

Short Story Challenge Results

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The Spring 2010 Short Story Prompt Challenge was a huge success. A total of nine submissions were posted, and we discovered a lot.

There were some interesting correlations. We had three retold fairy tales and several not-so-happy endings. Many of us had to struggle to keep it down to the short story length, yet we all succeeded. None of us turned in something that failed to be complete and stand alone.

Overall, we learned a lot, had a lot of fun, and critiqued like crazy. We were the loudest, laughingest group in our busy meeting place, that’s for sure!

Our next challenge, of course, is to revise and proofread all those stories and send them out to publishers. Let’s get to work.

Kathleen