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A few weeks ago, I mentioned I entered the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest (http://www.amazon.com/Breakthrough-Novel-Award-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=332264011). Well, they just had the first cut today and I made it! Out of 10,000 entrants (5,000 in my category) I made the cut!
I especially wanted to thank my fellow "sackies" Dawesbr, Fusionboxer, and Teebonsey for giving me some excellent feedback.

I hope this isn't inappropriate to post. I wasn't sure where to place it.

Congrats to all the entrants! squee!

http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/5536/abnawinning1000listhigh.jpg		2010-02-26 01:59:00

Author:
pantspantspants
Posts: 189

Yay! Good job! I hope you win some earth moneys!2010-02-26 03:04:00

Author:
chezhead
Posts: 1063

Congrats! Now remove your pants!




XD jk		2010-02-26 04:44:00

Author:
Smart_Alex
Posts: 189

YAY Great Job man hope you win

Your story is awesomeness		2010-02-26 06:45:00

Author:
rseah
Posts: 2701

Well done, i love the name of it.2010-02-26 07:46:00

Author:
lbpholic
Posts: 1304

You Made It!2010-02-26 12:52:00

Author:
Unknown User

Ah shoot, now I want to get back to work on MY novel... only I probably can't because I'm so lazy >_>

Still, congratz on your accomplishment!		2010-02-26 14:54:00

Author:
RockSauron
Posts: 10882

Congrats! Now remove your pants!




XD jk

Sure, I have two extra spares.

*hands over pants*		2010-02-26 15:18:00

Author:
pantspantspants
Posts: 189

You get uber win!

Great work! :star: :star: :star: :star: :star:		2010-02-26 16:12:00

Author:
PoD CREW
Posts: 268

Thank you guys for all the nice congrats.

I hope dawesbr, Fusionboxer, and Teebonesy drop by. Just to let them know their two cents really did matter.

Thank you so much again.		2010-02-26 23:10:00

Author:
pantspantspants
Posts: 189

Oh yes i remember the original thread! but i dont know anything about literature so i decided to stay off
anyway congrats! Best of luck! 		2010-02-26 23:43:00

Author:
Racroz
Posts: 406

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eee

Also, shouldn't your name be pantspants now O_O

Oh and hello again LBPC!

goodbye again.

PS) Glad you got in by the way

PPS) Oh I guess that'd be hello again then

PPPS) Bye.		2010-02-27 22:12:00

Author:
dawesbr
Posts: 3280

Congrats man!2010-03-02 16:46:00

Author:
Ragfell
Posts: 729

Wow! Congratulations! That is pretty spectacular!2010-03-02 16:58:00

Author:
mrsupercomputer
Posts: 1335

Thanks for the congrats guys! I checked in to see what was happening on the boards and I was surprised this topic was still going, lol! You certainly can make a girl feel special.2010-03-02 17:10:00

Author:
pantspantspants
Posts: 189

Of COURSE you got in. I mean, come on.

That's awesome though. I have a joke with my friends whenever one of us submits a film to a film festival that we should just include a form letter with blanks for them to send back. "Thank you for your entry into _______ Festival. We had a record _______ entries this year and it was extraordinarily difficult to have to choose. We regret to inform you..." etc.

Forgive me for perusing the rest of the "Ws" and judging your competition by their titles, but screw it, let's do this.

Jeremiah Sings the Blues? This guy better come correct with a story worthy of blues-singing, I swear to GOD!
Ghost Dance. First thing that pops into my head is the Disney Haunted Mansion. Who wouldn't? It's called "Ghost Dance".

Let's take a very special second aside to point out the all-caps entries.
UNREQUIRED LOVE - a play on the term unrequited love? I guess?
E-VENGEANCE - He was wronged, oh yes. He was wronged. time to get even. WITH THE INTERNET. "This summer. Net... Your... Revenge!"
A CHRISTIAN EDUCATION - This is "General fiction", correct? A coming-of-age story of an altar boy perhaps? Oh boy.

Here are the ones I find somewhat intriguing and I would say either look out for these guys or maybe sabotage them, either way.

"Venceremos" - spanish for "We will overcome". Could be a tale of revolution - ooor it could be a tale of an underdog sports team. In which case, nooo worries.
"11:59" - a new years eve story? an end-of-the-world story?
"Resonance" - the story of a violin-player's struggle with terminal illness. Nah, just kidding, it's a sweet action story like The Matrix. Here's a passage: "Then the other guy shot at him! Pew pew pew! The shots rang in the air with a super scary... RESONANCE." The prose, you have to admit, is incredible.

I actually love scrutinizing titles. You've got to make an interesting title, it has to at the very least be intriguing. It can be incredibly hard to do. Sometimes the effort seems so strained that you end up with some funny stuff. But it's always a fun game to pick out... "unique" titles and then try to guess or invent what the story's about. Here are a few "winners" from the bigger list of entries. Never forget that these are the guys you're up against:

Flesh - the tale of a cannibal's life in the big city.
In Sorrow All Our Days - the story of how I rolled my eyes reading a book title.
The Sweetness
Turkey Ranch Road Rage - this must be self-explanatory in some fashion.
His Fleece Was White as Snow - a super scary horror novel.
The Miracle of the Christmas Wish Holder
MAGNO GIRL
Pug Ugly and Pretty Dead
An Educated, Desperate Young Man (you can't say he hasn't described his protagonist, because he sure has.)
The Fragrance of Forgiveness (I think this has to be my favorite)
The Quantum Mechanic: A Superhero Story of Ethic Contortions (ETHIC CONTORTIONS? Is this a play on "Epic Proportions"? Oh DEAR!)
Life's A Beach, Then You Die
A Book That Lives Up To Its Title (I'm not kidding this is actually one of the titles)
In England, Now that Murder's There (took me three reads of this title to grasp what it was saying)
SIMBIOSYS - Ultimate Cyber Attack (sounds like a new Pokemon)
The White Tar Baby
Knock'n on Wood
The Glory that was Glass (a story of the sad future of humanity after we hunt glass to extinction)
The Avenue of Eternal Tranquillity (about a street in the suburbs of Heaven where everyone sits around not doing anything, forever. This novel's only two pages long.)
RICHARD - My Life as a Penis - hilariously, my friend and I have often joked about writing a tragic opera about our friend's penis. The first act would be his ambition and achieving power, and the final 2 acts would chronicle his downfall. Unfortunately, I doubt this novel is as interesting. I'm sure he's just playing with the name "****", a shortened form of Richard.
Milkmaids, Meadows, Boys Called Peter - sounds like the christmas list of a crazy person.
PRICK: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist - I actually think this one's really clever and I would actually pick this one off the shelf if I saw it in a bookstore.
I CANNOT GO ON WITH THIS RELIGION - I don't think this is the actual title, the author was just zoning out while writing his application.

the word "echo" shows up 3 times. "Blood", 5 times. "Shadow", 6 times. "Ghost", 5 times. "Death", 7 times.
"Arthropods", only once.

Anyway, keep us in the loop, can't wait to hear where this goes next.		2010-03-02 20:20:00

Author:
Teebonesy
Posts: 1937

Congrats man!

lol she's a girl, that's her in the pic		2010-03-03 01:48:00

Author:
Racroz
Posts: 406

Teebonesy,

I can say with no hesitation that you are absolutely one of the funniest commenters I've ever read on the internet. I nearly died reading your post. Judging by how you dissected the titles of the other entries, I'd be fearful of you if you were a book critic. To be honest, I laughed a little too at the all caps titles. I realize it's an easy mistake. When querying literary agents it's sort of standard to have your book title in all caps. I believe they do that with screenplays too, right? There's a lot of great writers in the competition and at the next cut only 250 people will make it to the next round...yikes! That gives me a 1/4th chance or 25% probability of making it through.

As a first time author, I guess I should be happy I made the cut at all. I have say your last sentence "Arthropods" was only found once was really kind, thanks.

So you and your friends make independent films? Is there anywhere we can watch them?

Racroz

I'm sorry to disappoint you both, but I'm actually a three dimensional space Android from Chengdu.		2010-03-03 13:23:00

Author:
pantspantspants
Posts: 189

It is weird how PRECISELY they preserve the exact syntax of the applications. If it's all caps, then by golly the author must have INTENDED all caps! If there are quotations around the title, then by golly... BY GOLLY, I SAY!!!

Thanks for the kind words, by the by. And yes, I do have some small bits of filmmaking online - I'm in the middle of finishing up my "big" short film.

Here's a scene (http://www.thelibrarychronicles.com/video/ministrypreviewv2.mov)(links to a .mov file).

Soon as I get around to finishing it or posting more stuff or revamping the site - all in the works - I'll put up a big thread around these parts to spread the good news.		2010-03-04 07:50:00

Author:
Teebonesy
Posts: 1937

That is actually really good. I'm not just saying that because of your last post, I mean it honestly. Although, I'm not exactly a film critic so I wouldn't know how to rip your scene apart even if I wanted to...

Did you write it too?

But excellent work. I laughed at Boddington even though I had no idea what was going on. Let us know how this turns out. I tried to leave a comment on the "library chronicles" blog, but after seeing there were more than a thousand messages...I thought I'd just post it here.

I like the extra long cigarette holder, I thought myself, "What?"

Again, good work.

-Triple P.		2010-03-04 16:49:00

Author:
pantspantspants
Posts: 189

congrats man i hope you win2010-03-04 18:24:00

Author:
WESFUN
Posts: 1336

That is actually really good. I'm not just saying that because of your last post, I mean it honestly. Although, I'm not exactly a film critic so I wouldn't know how to rip your scene apart even if I wanted to...

Did you write it too?

But excellent work. I laughed at Boddington even though I had no idea what was going on. Let us know how this turns out. I tried to leave a comment on the "library chronicles" blog, but after seeing there were more than a thousand messages...I thought I'd just post it here.

I like the extra long cigarette holder, I thought myself, "What?"

Again, good work.

-Triple P.

Yep, the blog has been eaten alive by some russian spambots. Eventually, soon hopefully, we're going to overhaul the entire site from scratch, and it'll be actually usable and readable.

I am indeed cowriter as well. The guy that plays Boddington is my collaborator on this whole thing - we're cocreators, cowriters, codirectors, coproducers, and costars. We often talk about doing a multimedia project with this, with the movie being the centerpiece, but also writing radio plays and serialized short fiction (a la magazine publications of the 19th and early 20th century), and possibly a short graphic-novel/webcomic style bit. The story takes place in this vast alternate universe that we've invented, and we've talked about it so much that there's so, so much more detail to it than what's in the movie. It's hard enough for us to wrangle just the movie, so the rest probably won't come to fruition, but who knows. As we get closer to finishing this, I might just light a fire under myself.

And yeah, I figured you'd probably have no idea what was really going on here, but I think that's okay! If you're totally weirded out, maybe slightly creeped out, and also laughed, then the clip's done it's job in selling the production.

Anyway, enough of that, I feel like I'm hijacking your thread. When is this next cut down to 250 going to go down?		2010-03-05 00:48:00

Author:
Teebonesy
Posts: 1937


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