{"id":319,"date":"2012-01-27T16:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/01\/27\/cool-blogfest-alert-im-hearing-voices\/"},"modified":"2012-01-27T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T16:11:00","slug":"cool-blogfest-alert-im-hearing-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hildred-billings.com\/site\/2012\/01\/27\/cool-blogfest-alert-im-hearing-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Blogfest Alert: I’m Hearing Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A good looking blogfest called I’m Hearing Voices – Character Blogfest<\/a> is being held over at Live to Write…Edit when Necessary.<\/p>\n

Definitely signed up for this as the prompts look great! Not even that interested in the prizes but the prompts will be great exercises, and I’ve been looking for a good blogfest to join recently.<\/p>\n

Here is the outline, copy-pasta’d for your reading pleasure~<\/p>\n

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The Posts<\/span><\/u><\/b>:<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
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February 6th – Monday<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/u>: Characters on the couch<\/i><\/b>: Have one of your characters answer the following questions (to make this work to your benefit, choose a character who is the hardest for you to write \ud83d\ude42 Max 250 words (Not including the questions\u2014only the answers).<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
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  1. What is your biggest vulnerability? Do others know this or is it a secret?<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. What do people believe about you that is false?<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. What would your best friend say is your fatal flaw? Why?<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. What would the same friend say is your one redeeming quality? Why?<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. What do you want most? What will you do to get it?<\/span> <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    February 8th – Wednesday<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/u> – Dialogue Introduction<\/i><\/b>: Have two characters introduce each other using only dialogue\u2014no backstory, no internalization, just dialogue between the two. Max 250 words.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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    February 10th – Friday<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/u> – Emotion Flash Fiction<\/i><\/b>: Emotion is the engine of a story. Pick an emotion and in a flash fiction piece of 250 words MAKE us feel it! We want to connect with your character. This will be a challenge in 250 words.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The Prizes<\/span><\/u><\/b>:<\/span> <\/span><\/div>\n
    Cassie and I decided to pick two winners for each day:<\/span><\/div>\n

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    Monday\u2019s Prize\u2019s<\/span><\/span><\/b>\u2014<\/span><\/div>\n
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