99 blog fest

Reminder: 99th Page Blogfest Happening TOMORROW

Sorry for the horrible graphic. Please send a better one.

That's right, tomorrow a blogfest with Erinn, Holly, Pam, and Quita. You can read the initial post here. If you didn't bother to click, the gist is to post page 99 of one of your writing projects and then visit everyone else who signed up. (As of 8.30 AM Thursday, we have 19 people*.)

Several people have asked what the rules are for tomorrow's blogfest. When visiting everyone else's page, you should focus and answer the following three questions:

1. Would you turn to page 100?
2. Why or why not?
3. Based on what you read, how likely would you buy the book?

So simple. So fun.

Please remember, when critting to be polite. Don't write anything you wouldn't say to the person's face. You know us writer types are a sensitive bunch.



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This is mine, Natalie has just been kissed by Seth for the first time...these two do not communicate well!  I posted 99 exactly...no fudging the beginning or end of the scene. 
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other object that existed in your world at that moment.  You know for a fact that it would be easier to die than see them dead.  The word love creeps into your mind and you have read the descriptions and never understood the intensity until it happens to you.

Time melds with the rain smearing all things around me. No detail is clear except the way his lips feel so hot and sizzling upon my own.  The thumping of my heart is so loud, it is surely going to make my ears bleed.  Can he hear it?

He drew away and my soul screams at the thought of parting from this pure joy.  I let my breath out and lean toward him.  His lips brush mine again, but he swiftly and firmly pulls my head to his hot chest and he kindly kisses the top of my forehead.

“I’m sorry Natalie. I should never have…”

“Seth….i ….i don’t know….Seth….” I pull myself upright and look in his eyes.  I see regret and it hurts me.  Fears mixed with self-doubt to instantly become anger.  How could he have given me something so perfect and steal it so fast.  I am embarrassed because evidently I had not done something right and he hadn’t liked it.  I am too mortified to speak. I can’t stand the look of sadness in his eyes and I tearfully break eye contact.

“Natalie…..I….I didn’t mean to do that….It was…”he breaks off and I fill in the blanks for him. 

“Don’t worry about it…..it was nothing.” I lean against the door staring out the window.

“I didn’t mean to offend you.  I didn’t…..think…it just…..”He stammers.