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LyndaD
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Save him for your rewrite after the contest. I always save a first, unedited, unrevised, uncut, draft to refer to later when I want to polish the story without the constraints of the prompt. Some stuff goes back in, some stuff doesn't.
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MattrickBT
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Do people normally re-work the story after the contest? I'm leaving them as is.
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LyndaD
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If they're thinking about submitting it for publication or in another contest (that isn't prompt-based). Some do it just for fun.
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Cowyoga
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Things I tell myself: you have been brief once or twice in your life. You can do it again.
Things I do: spend 942 words creating the backstory for an effing creek. Tell my children I died doing what I love. |
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FFC Ch2 Gr63 Not in My Back Yard (15 pts)
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MattrickBT
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Why would a creek ever need a backstory? It's a creek.
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Cowyoga
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Well sure, now it is because I've had to cut its entire backstory. |
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FFC Ch2 Gr63 Not in My Back Yard (15 pts)
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Zblugg
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When cutting, I feel like it's just fricking painful to look at your brainthing, you wordbaby, and honestly identify useless parts. Honesty towards yourself is hard above all.
Self-delusion is such ancomfy couch to lie on... |
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MF100 R2G16 Marv and Mary Have Flower Issues
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MattrickBT
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Yeah, but why would a creek need a backstory, ever? It's a creek. Seem like unnecessary exposition to me no matter the project. Just wondering what the thought process is behind such a choice. Do you read a lot of Tolkien who would ramble about a hill for six pages?
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MattrickBT
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That's why you must be heartless and unfeeling. Sentimentality and pride are the downfall of writers. |
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LyndaD
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And if that's what you like (to read or write), what's wrong with it? It is what it is. Maybe it's a sentient creek. Maybe it's the personification of the son of a river god. Maybe it's just a really cool creek.
While I agree that flash fiction is not the place for extensive back stories, I don't understand the questioning of a place having a backstory.
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