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12 x 12 November 2018 Check-In!

Folks, we have but one month left in the 12 x 12 challenge this year. It’s always both an exciting and bittersweet time. Exciting because we have a shiny new year ahead with new possibilities for our writing. Bittersweet because the current year of writing and community is coming to a close. There will be tallying and assessing and, hopefully, lots of writing as we aim to end this year on a high note, possibly even as a winner of this year’s 12 x 12 challenge!

For this month, I did not write a new draft. But I did lots and lots and lots of writing and revising. I was fortunate enough to go to Highlights to study again with the great Jane Yolen. I kept the momentum after I left and feel more engaged with my writing now than I have in a long time. So even without a new draft, I am pleased with this month’s progress.

How about you?

Tell us your progress. Did you complete a draft and/or revision in November? Let us know in the Rafflecopter and in the comments. One lucky winner will receive a copy of WEIRD BUT TRUE: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES 3 from this month’s Featured Author Alison Pearce Stevens.

WEIRD BUT TRUE: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES 3 BY Alison Pearce Stevens

Thank you, Alison!

Here is what you need to do to check in for a chance to win:

  1. See the Rafflecopter widget at the end of this post that says “A Copy of WEIRD BUT TRUE by Alison Pearce Stevens at the top.
  2. Click on the “Comment on Alison’s post” button. Commenting on Alison’s post is mandatory for this giveaway and you can enter the Rafflecopter even if you didn’t write a draft this month. You can comment on the post here.  Click ENTER.
  3. Click on the “Wrote a PB Draft” button. This will ask if you completed a PB draft in November. If you did, click ENTER, if not, move on to the next step.
  4. Click on the last “Revised a PB Draft” button. This will ask if you revised a PB in November. If you did, click ENTER. If not, move on to the next step.
  5. That’s it! Rafflecopter will track your points.

You have until midnight Eastern on December 4th to enter your results. Rafflecopter will draw a winner and it will be announced on the blog on December 5th.

You do not need to post your manuscript and/or revisions on the forum for them to count. If you wrote or revised a manuscript in November, even if it’s scribbled on a napkin in your car, then enter the Rafflecopter below.

(Remember, monthly draft and revision badges are awarded separately from your Rafflecopter entry. Watch this handy tutorial to find out how to get your badges. CLICK HERE.)

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13 Responses

  1. I did write a draft though there are so many holes in the story, it’s quite drafty. I spent most of my time this month revising other manuscripts.

    1. “it’s quite drafty” –this comment on your holey draft made me chuckle too much not to tell you so. 😀

  2. November was productive for me. I wrote a draft and worked on a couple of revisions. It’s hard to think about the year coming to a close. Looking forward to the rest of 12×12 2018!

  3. I wrote THREE new drafts this month thanks to an eleven hour flight AND revised one story. I need to pump out 2 more drafts in December to WIN THIS CHALLENGE… We shall see.

  4. Thank goodness for Susanna Hill’s Holiday Contest…I wrote a story for that so November draft is checked off! And because an editor wasn’t crazy about a new pb I wrote last month, I had to completely revise/rewrite it…will finish polishing it in the next few weeks and then I’ll send it off to her…fingers crossed she’ll be happy with the new one.

  5. I thought that this might be the month that I didn’t write a draft at all . . . but I did come up with a draft, and I revised it a little bit. Can’t believe it’s been almost an entire year!

  6. A slow start to the month but I got a creative burst halfway through that led me to completing a new draft, and I’ve been revising two manuscripts following critiques. I cannot believe there’s only one month to go … really want to keep that momentum going and make it to a full house of 12 new drafts by year end!

  7. November has been an amazing month of all the hard work paying off! And like Vivian K said, TG for the Halloweensie contest; I found an appreciation & passion for writing short but strong; I even placed in the top 14! Board books in my future, perhaps? 🙂 Plus I signed with Spork this month–hooray!! December will be a month of revising & enjoying the holiday season (I promise to work extra hard in January :> )

  8. I also wrote a crummy draft. I’m learning to accept that they all require lots of work to get to a polished story.

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All applications will be accepted via email only between November 1, 2023 – November 30, 2023 at kelli@juliehedlund.com.

Subject line of the email:

  1. 12 x 12 Financial Need Scholarship
 

Please include the following in the body of the email:

  1. An autobiographical statement and career summary in 250 words or fewer.
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