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Pajamas All Day
NYC Midnight Black Belt Joined: 19 Jul 2018 Location: Texas Status: Offline Points: 1675 |
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I wrote 2,000 words of a story that I thought would be excellent. The minute I got the prompts, the story hit my head almost fully formed. I thought/wrote/thought/wrote for three days. My beta readers HATED it. I didn't hate it but I knew I had it in me to do better. I started over from scratch with a completely different idea on Wednesday. I didn't sleep Wednesday or Thursday night and was almost incoherent on Friday. My husband forced me to go to bed for a few hours. I finished the second story on Saturday morning and submitted it. Unfortunately, I kept tinkering with it multiple times after the first submission and I think I tinkered my way out of any possibility of making it to the second round. My first story idea was good but it was flash fiction good and not short story good. In other words, it didn't have the legs to be a 2,500 word story and I didn't fully realize it until it was kind of too late.
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dtill359
NYC Midnight Groupie Joined: 23 Jan 2021 Location: South Carolina Status: Offline Points: 140 |
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Submitted mine Saturday afternoon with about 9 hrs. to spare.
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mike450
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 04 Feb 2021 Location: NJ Status: Offline Points: 1249 |
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Hey there... btw I really enjoyed "First, Do No Harm" :) Great to see you again Yeah, I definitely do NOT recommend it as a process lol
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mike450
NYC Midnight Addict Joined: 04 Feb 2021 Location: NJ Status: Offline Points: 1249 |
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Wow, so you can relate! Well, I hope what you ended up submitting winds up exceeding your expectations... good luck! |
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