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ideallyowlish
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Is 5am too late for wine? Because that's what time it is where I am I think I need it, if only to suppress the trauma of researching those goddamn clouds!
I genuinely thought I'd love the open genre, but I didn't anticipate how much choice paralysis would slow me down. I had maybe three ideas worth pursuing, but I kept vacillating between them all until waaaay too late for comfort. Finally settled on something I'm pretty happy with, or at least something I know I've had success with in the past. Looking forward to seeing how you all got on!
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northernwriter
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Are we allowed to do the logline and title post? I'm super curious to see what everyone else wrote!
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Microfiction 2021: 4th place overall
Flash Fiction 2020: 8th place overall |
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taaaylor
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Definitely! Just not the stories themselves yet. I started the thread a minute ago because I'm pretty dang excited too ;)
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pash
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Well, I'm flying to Mexico tomorrow, so now I'm packing. WOULD DO TERRIBLE THINGS FOR WINE RIGHT NOW.
Can't wait to read what everyone came up with!!
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Anansi
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Resisted the urge to re-submit at 4 AM. After wine induced re-editing.
I've made that mistake before...
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justmel
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I submitted mine at about 2:30 in the afternoon, not because I was completely satisfied with it but because I was just that sick of looking at it. At 10:58 pm (one minute before deadline here in the Upper Midwest), I realized what the last line needed to be. Frantically got the change done, double-checked my word count, and resubmitted with clumsy fingers and a pounding heart, thinking I'd gotten it in within milliseconds of the deadline-- but when the confirmation email came, it was time-stamped 11:01, so I'm assuming the resubmission will be rejected. Why oh why couldn't my muse have come up with this idea literally two minutes sooner? Ack.
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thee_gray_lady
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Many pressure-induced mental breakdowns later.. it's done. And maybe terrible. Who cares? (It's me. I'm the one who cares.)
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- thee_gray_lady
Flash Fiction, CH1 G23, Ruby Ghost |
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taaaylor
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Congrats on finishing strong! I never thought finishing with extra words left over would be such a difficult problem, but I feel like it consumed way more of my time and energy to choose what to put in vs what to cut. I was in the flash fic final last year, and we did not have to put in the genre. :) So by my whopping two years' of data it's always been that way. Well done making the final round of the SSC last year btw!
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ellynmfx
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Ugh!!!! I feel your pain - that's awful!! Curse our slowpoke muses!
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