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Rita
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 23 Jan 2021 Location: nj Status: Offline Points: 615 |
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My assigned genre is political satire (damage control, an insider). I watch and read about politics daily but have never, ever tried to write satire of any type. Ugh. I laugh occasionally, but my stories are usually on the dramatic or dark side.
I started writing and scrapped three different ideas, discussed them at length with my millennial son last night, but now I'm 1700 words into something completely different than anything we brainstormed. I'm calling it a night (time for 2nd glass of wine) and will pick it back up for a rewrite and 2nd draft in the morning. Good luck everyone!
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NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 17 Nov 2017 Location: C. of Letters Status: Offline Points: 5401 |
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Yeah, I've pretty much skipped a step and started to loathe my story already. The basic outline won't change, but I might re-work several parts tomorrow. Oh, and I need a good ending. I'll order one from Amazon. anD a loG linE capitalizeD properlY
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Reasonably_Crazy
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I got Fairy Tale, a genre I have no idea how to write (and has bumped me out of the competition in the past). I find it hard to nail the proper voice for fairy tale. I may... finish my first draft within word count?? It's an auspicious day. |
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amlewi08
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 16 Jul 2019 Location: Lexington, KY Status: Offline Points: 1125 |
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I'm 1,000 words in. And I'm super pleased with what I've got, I think? maybe? IDK. It varies by the minute, honestly.
Hopefully it's out there enough. Maybe I'm just not creative at all, but I feel like a horror with "career ladder" as the subject can really only go 1 or 2 ways.
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ZoeLou
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Really struggling this round, I can't seem to make the words go. So far in these comps I've been lucky enough to land genres that are fairly open-ended (a/a, fantasy, horror etc) but spy is really throwing me - I keep coming up with half-formed ideas for the other two prompts but it just feels so forced when I try to mould those ideas around a spy plot.
Starting to stress me out that 2/3rds of the time is gone and I'm yet to come up with an idea, let alone 2000 words of a story!
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Heartstart
NYC Midnight Regular Joined: 28 Jan 2017 Location: Canberra Status: Offline Points: 383 |
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Spy is a tough one for sure! If I can offer a tip, it would be to think creatively. Your characters don't necessarily have to be spies in their day job. A couple of years ago, I got 'Spy' for Round 2, and wrote a story about two dinner party guests who snooped around in their host's house for a secret family recipe. It got me through to Round 3. Anyway, I'm now up to 1200 words, with just over 24 hours left to go (and as I'm in Australia, and it's after 1pm on Sunday, it's really a lot less time than that, as I have to sleep and go to work tomorrow morning!).
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crez
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First draft finished and only a few hundred words over the limit. Hopefully I won't have to prune the life out of it to get it under 2000. Oh yeah, and hopefully it makes sense.
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taaaylor
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Political satire can absolutely be dark and serious! Both times I've gotten it I wrote very grim cyberpunk stories. Both got me to the next round (in flash fic). Satire here just refers to carrying a certain existing characteristic of our society to hyperbole in order to create commentary and/or criticism. I hope that helps a bit <3
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KateHJ
NYC Midnight Regular Joined: 28 Jan 2021 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 284 |
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You're the greatest!! On its way. I'm utterly ambivalent, so be as brutal as you wish. I've never written in this genre before and don't read it, either, so I'm swimming.
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KateHJ
NYC Midnight Regular Joined: 28 Jan 2021 Location: Virginia Status: Offline Points: 284 |
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Hello, group mate! I don't write or watch movies in this genre, so I leaned hard into my strengths - dialogue and character-driven focus. I'm on the fifth draft now and have managed to go 72 words over, so I have a lot of work to do in a few hours. For now, SLEEP. |
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