Hello, Hello! How is everyone holding up? I managed to scrape by this month with a revision AND a very, very crappy first draft written at the last minute. However, it’s been so long since I’ve gotten any meaningful writing time, I will gladly take both!
Tell us YOUR progress. Did you complete a draft and/or revision in July? Let us know in the Rafflecopter and in the comments. July Featured Author Lisa Tolin is offering a picture book manuscript critique (non-rhyming) to July’s check-in winner. Thanks for such a ROCKIN’ prize, Lisa!
Here’s what you need to do to check in for a chance to win:
- See the Rafflecopter widget at the end of this post.
- Click on the “Comment on Lisa’s post” button. Commenting on Lisa’s post is mandatory for this giveaway and you can enter the Rafflecopter even if you didn’t write a draft this month. Click ENTER.
- If you haven’t commented on Lisa’s post yet, go to the post here to comment. Then come back to this post to enter the Rafflecopter. (Commenting won’t enter you in the drawing automatically, you must enter the Rafflecopter by following step 2.)
- Click on the “Wrote a PB Draft” button. This will ask if you completed a PB draft in July. If you did, click ENTER, if not, click cancel and move on to the next step.
- Click on the last “Revised a PB Draft” button. This will ask if you revised a PB in July. If you did, click ENTER. If not, click cancel.
- That’s it! There is no overall submit button or email confirmation. Rafflecopter will track your points. (The top of the Rafflecopter will say X/3 with X being the number of entries you currently have in the drawing.)
Here’s a video tutorial on the forum to walk you through these steps as well. Click here for the monthly check-in tutorial.
You have until midnight Eastern on August 7th to enter your results. Rafflecopter will draw a winner and it will be announced on the blog on August 8th.
Remember, badges are not awarded automatically and must be requested in the forum. If you haven’t requested your July 2022 badges yet, you may do so HERE. Not sure how to request a badge? Check out this tutorial.
11 Responses
I wrote a new draft based on a childhood friend after my high school reunion and revised a draft I wrote last year.
I finished a first draft that I initially outlined back in 2019, but I spent most of my writing time this month focusing on revisions and researching submissions. I feel like July was the first productive writing month I’ve enjoyed this year!
I write a draft for my story the spaceship nextdoor
I wrote one new story (+ one adult poem), revised two, and came up with the concept for another! Not bad for working 7 days a week!
I wrote a new story about getting glasses the first time and revised a manuscript for my editor.
July was busy, but I did revisions on a couple of mss.
July was a month I needed to devote to family. I did some revision, but there was way too much competition to try and seriously give time to my wrtiing.
Hey, 12x12ers! Hope your summer has been great. In the month of July, I completed 6 revisions and 1 new draft.
Very productive…busy summer!
I moved three kids and me, and sure enough: this month’s manuscript is about moving!
I worked on a major revision of a picture book biography. I started it in a completely different spot and hacked off major chunks of it. All thanks to my writers groups–and a fabulous critique from Nancy Churnin. Thank you, Nancy.