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DeLynn
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Tequila neat for me, please!! I need all the cheap courage I can buy at this point!!!
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Evil Tomato
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Heh, that sounds way more mature and effective than my approach. I just decided that there had to be foreshadowing and it was going to feel forced so I hung a lampshade the size of Tasmania on it and then wrote OBVIOUS FORESHADOWING on the lampshade, and then hung another lampshade on the lampshade. Metaphorically speaking.
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Angara
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I'm in heat one (suspense / a diet / a professional wrestler) and it was "suspense" that I struggled with the most. What I couldn't get around the fact was the idea of suspense as its own genre; sure, suspense is a component of mystery, thriller, crime capers, spy...but on its own? I was having a lot of difficulty with it. I think I need to go out and read more. At the end I buckled and wrote something vaguely sci-fi because I was still riding high on inspiration from round one (which was sci-fi). Didn't have time to go back on it because by the time I started writing it was noon on the day of the due date. Tbh, the real suspense of the evening was whether or not I'd get it submitted on time If I don't make it to the final round, that's fine. Coming up with something and submitting it is already a win for me.
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Heartstart
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Yeah, I definitely felt like my Round 2 story was nowhere near my best. I just couldn't really get into my prompts (and it didn't help that I got the dreaded 'spy' genre)!
On the plus side, it feels great to have achieved something, to have finished something. Can't wait to start reading the Round 2 stories that are posted!
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redhart
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At the end I buckled and wrote something vaguely sci-fi because I was still riding high on inspiration from round one (which was sci-fi). Didn't have time to go back on it because by the time I started writing it was noon on the day of the due date. Tbh, the real suspense of the evening was whether or not I'd get it submitted on time If I don't make it to the final round, that's fine. Coming up with something and submitting it is already a win for me.
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Genre mash-ups, imho, seem to do well with the judges. So there’s that. I think they have a point of difference that make them stand out among the other stories. I threw in a bit of comedy but don’t know how that will be accepted in a suspense It was great just to get to the second round. |
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BarbaraFL
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I just re-read my first paragraph, and it reads as if a five-year-old wrote it.
I have a firm belief in what a former teacher called the "zero draft" - get it all on the page and then fix it - but yeah my zero draft shouldn't have been what I submitted to this contest. Welp, screenwriting starts this weekend!
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Angara
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incorporating comedy in with suspense is a stroke of genius. Usually I associate suspense with danger, gravity, impending doom etc. etc. but it occurred to me hours after submitting that I could have tried comedy. Suspense has its place in comedy and vice versa; a lot of comedy sitcoms use suspense to heighten anticipation of a joke's resolution. ...Then again, I'm terrible at comedy, so I don't know why I thought trying my hand at it would improve my submission. The fact that you've incorporated comedy in your piece makes me want to read all the more, imho.
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Scribbles
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Same. I was so worried about not "getting" the genre I almost didn't finish. But baby's out in the world and now comes the waiting.
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GaleGirl
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Very thoughtful, helpful response. Thanks for taking the time to share that framework.
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BooksbyBJThompson
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I rather collapsed into a mini coma after submitting. For me, R2 was a severe challenge as genre was well out of my wheelhouse. I had to double-down on the focus and get out my machete to kill the babble.
I'll take that appletini off your hands... no, not the glass. Hand me the pitcher. Thanks.
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