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 Will Write 4 Food
Monthly Writing Contest
August 2006 Winner: Mariana Williams, Lettuce
Prey
Honorable Mention: Dana Lambrose, Well Done
Honorable Mention: Paul Halewijn, Is That It?
View the 2006 Will
Write 4 Food catalogue of winners & honorable mentions.
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August 2006 Honorable Mention
Well Done
by Dana Lambrose
Sherry swallowed her last bite of hope. Raw
passion and rare tenacity was all she could sink her teeth into. Her
brain froze as numb as her fingertips as she sat down to begin yet
another rewrite of her novel.
She’d sent her query letter to sixty agents, after having
rewritten it thirty-seven times. In return she’d received
fifty-five responses, “No thanks, not for me.” Yet,
five agents had requested to read her manuscript; four of which
had been returned with the dreaded form letter.
Initially, she’d taken it in stride. “There goes another
agent who will kick herself someday,” she’d said as
she’d trashed each rejection. But lately, she was the one
who’d been kicking herself. She’d spent two years of
her life sitting at her computer absorbed in writing fiction while
the real world passed her by.
Discouraged, she hadn’t slept in two nights and couldn’t
remember when she’d eaten last. Yet, she fired up her computer,
heated up the grill demanding her mind thaw out and dish up a few
words of literary genius.
Her husband entered the room and set a hamburger in front of her
on her desk, saying, “Eat up, a future best-selling author
needs her strength.” Then he handed her an envelope. The return
address was that of the agent holding the fifth manuscript she’d
sent out. Her hands trembled as she opened the letter and read aloud,
“I would like to represent your novel. It is of rare quality.
Well done!”
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