Giveaway Extravaganza Day #5
Trick or treat…?
How to frighten away your in-laws:
You should pretend that you’ve become a zombie and be making breakfast one morning, but just moving the dishes from one side of the sink to the other.
Then when they come in, you can sloooooowly turn around and show them your fake-blood face and then say “braaaaaaaaaains” and slink after them until they actually start to freak out.
Or make your husband come first, and then you can actually gnaw on his shoulder and he can have a ketchup packet in there and it can EXPLODE and insanity ensues!
-Awesome Beta Reader, Kat
NaNoWriMo
a.k.a. National Novel Writing Month. The goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Am I doing it? You bet your booty I am. Are you doing it? You sure should be! If you want to, you can add me as a buddy on your NaNoWriMo page (my name is stowersd).
Today’s giveaway prize package is specifically geared to NaNoWri-mers (or any novelist, I suppose). Check out why:
Today’s Prizes:
- Novel Notebook (created by Sooz)
- Synopsis worksheets
- Query letter worksheets
- Characterization worksheets
- Plotting worksheets
- Setting worksheets
- Revising your novel How To Guide
- Articles on writing compiled from various online sources
- Synopsis worksheets
- An AMAZING erasable pen.
- Yes, it’s cool. It’s the only kind of pen I use now.
- Mini index cards
- Perfect for scene brainstorming and timeline-ing.
- Colored index cards
- Critical for fixing plot holes & planning scene revisions
- Critical for fixing plot holes & planning scene revisions
- Post-it page mark thingies
- Also essential for revisions.
- Brazilian Coffee Beans
- This is my most favoritist coffee in the whole world. No joke, it’s amazingly delicious.
- This is my most favoritist coffee in the whole world. No joke, it’s amazingly delicious.
- Coffee mug
- Use it to drink coffee or to hold pens — whatevs. It’s flexible.
To enter:
- Click follow in the right column (if you aren’t already). You don’t have to do this, but it’d be cool if you could…
- Scroll to the bottom and leave a friendly comment.
- If you have blogged or tweeted about the Extravaganza Day 5, let me know in the comments (you can always come back and comment again if you decide to blog/tweet later). You get your name in the drawing an extra time for tweeting or blogging.
- I’ll put everyone’s names in a random-selector-thingy, and next Wednesday, I’ll announce the winner!
Don’t forget to sign up for Day #1, Day #2, Day #3, or Day #4.
You tell me:
Got any great Halloween pranks?
Are you doing NaNoWriMo?
Do you have any essential writing/office supplies?
What’s your favorite coffee? Or are you a tea drinker?
Happy Halloween!
-S.
October 29, 2010 @ 12:32 pm
I have to mention first that those coffee beans are what drew me in. I have this huge coffee addiction.
Tweeted: http://twitter.com/aekubo/statuses/29082739476
October 29, 2010 @ 1:30 pm
Now that’s one awesome dog. I like cats more, but I love dogs also. All that stuff sounds pretty cool.
I don’t think I have any essential writing tools. I just do a plot spreadhseet thing, and a character one.
October 29, 2010 @ 1:48 pm
How cool…what a great week of inspirations…and fun…Brazilian Coffee…my fav as well…love your setter.
October 29, 2010 @ 4:57 pm
Fun! I love this! I retweeted your post 🙂 http://twitter.com/stdennard/status/29081280311
October 29, 2010 @ 5:37 pm
Wow! This is like the essentails of any writer. Definitely count me in Susan! Thanks for yet another wonderful giveaway. =]
October 29, 2010 @ 5:51 pm
YAY FOR WRITING SUPPLIES!!
Thanks to everyone who has signed up, tweeted, blogged, stopped by! I appreciate it!
October 29, 2010 @ 5:52 pm
And, OMG, David — your zombie-thing picture on the YA Book Reads About us is AWESOME!!!!! How’d you get your eyes like that!?
October 29, 2010 @ 6:31 pm
OMGosh I want this for the Novel Notebook alone!!! I tweeted AND I’m about to include it in my Friday Five on LJ. 🙂 Great giveaway, Sooz!!!
October 29, 2010 @ 8:44 pm
Gosh, you’re probably the most organized person I’ve ever met. lol That’s an awesome prize pack!
October 29, 2010 @ 8:55 pm
looks fabulous! I have posted this on my sidebar…and I’m running a contest now, too- so come check it out.
Monkey see, monkey do.
I want to try NanoWriMo for the first time, but I am worried I won’t be able to fulfill the commitment. I am so obsessed with my own rewrite right now, I can barely devote time to it.
But I guess I have a few days to decide, right?
October 30, 2010 @ 7:07 am
Hey Susan! I love love love the prizes on this one. 🙂 I think I may have to run out and buy these things anyway – oh, wait. Student budget, Jules. RESTRAIN YOURSELF.
I absolutely am doing NaNoWriMo! I was reading your “how to get an idea out of nothing” class and one magically popped into my head – as if just reading about getting ideas made them buzz closer to my ears than usual.
I honestly just need a laptop, a notebook, and some sort of pen. But I love buying office supplies for some reason – those handy sticky notes for marking pages, mini-staplers, big staplers, colored pencils, colored paper clips, and binder clips. I LOVE binder clips. 😉
I’m not too picky about coffee vs. tea – tea takes less effort (the terrible way I make it), so I usually go with that, unless I’m desperate to stay awake.
Have a great day!
November 6, 2010 @ 8:20 am
Ack! Jules — that’s so cool! I love that my “ideas out of nothing” could help!!! I so did the same thing for my WIP!!! 🙂 🙂 I hope you’re doing well with NaNo so far!
October 30, 2010 @ 11:26 am
What an awesome prize! This has been such a fun week. I love these giveaways! 🙂
October 30, 2010 @ 12:16 pm
thanks for your comments on my blog– YAY for stamp nerds!!
October 30, 2010 @ 1:03 pm
Heya. I’m not actually entering. I just wanted to congratulate you on your signing with an agent. You must be incredibly excited. I wish you the best of luck!
October 30, 2010 @ 1:55 pm
I am doing NaNo this year (try it every year!) and I love my coffee. Love to get it from my local Honey Dew donut shop or it I can’t, Green Mountain coffee is good, too.
Margay
October 30, 2010 @ 2:47 pm
Great extravaganza! I tweated about it. I’ll be doing NaNo too this year.
October 30, 2010 @ 3:49 pm
This is such a great extravaganza! I’m doing NaNoWriMo this year, and all these things sound wonderful. :]
October 30, 2010 @ 5:28 pm
Thank you! I love going as scary stuff for Halloween! I did it with a white contact lense =D Thanks for joining the site too!
November 1, 2010 @ 4:05 pm
I did Nano last year, but I’m not doing it this year due to other things to finish and work on like my degree course and editing of BWBW.
Laura
~X~
November 3, 2010 @ 12:34 am
Oooh, you went from sweets to treats. Nice choice. Better yet, I can tell you my favorite coffees are teas involve chocolate, which nicely turns on your 4th extravaganza. LOL
I am doing a “mini Nano” this year as I’m still trying to organize my life to enable me to write. You can’t do Nano without organization – not the full 50k words.