Hook Contest!
After NaNoWriMo the novel sometimes gets shoved into a drawer and stays there. I have a dare for you.
Take it out and send the first 500 words of your novel (or a short story) to the Muse Marquee for their Hook Contest. You’re giving them permission to publish it and publicly critique it. Can you handle it? (Yes, you can use a pseudonym.) The contest deadline is August 15th, 2009.