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nrose1224
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I'm a mess and thought the deadline was tonight on 1/29/2023 for some reason!!! Oh well... at least I will get to enjoy the (American) football game championships tonight instead of scrambling for a deadline!
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mike450
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There is! Look up The Masters Review. In fact, the winter challenge is 6000 word max due end of day Tuesday.
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VaughnieM
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Day 1 - despair at genre. No ideas.
Day 2 go out for the day, forget the competition Day 3 start trying to put word on the page. Maybe a story idea will come. Next few days, continue putting words on page. Nailed the Suspense genre, so well even I don’t know what’s going to happen. Final day resign myself to not progressing but get a story done with little time to spare. Quick hour to run it through an editing tool. No time for beta readers so who knows. However, that is what I like about these challenges they throw things at you you are not happy writing and you have to do it. Probably won’t be progressing but I have tried another new genre, which can only help my overall writing. Good luck everyone.
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dustygerg
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Hey, I'm okay with four and five! Not picky in the least! My story was nuts but hoping that's in. Was yours a typical ghost story, allegorical, or didja just go straight up parody? This is me, totally not admitting to three distinctive genres.
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[https://forums.nycmidnight.com/r2-g15-romance-safe_topic51602.html] R2 G15 MF250
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nobodyowens
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I thought your story was great!
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nobodyowens
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Wow I'm a bit late to this topic but I managed to submit mine around 10:45pm after my computer gave me a scare when it wouldn't let me download the file to submit it 😂. This one was definitely the most challenging but also the most fun!
Special thank you to all the amazing beta readers who helped me out with this especially when it came to title and synopsis as im terrible at them 😂 I had a lot of fun reading other stories in the beta swap as well so I can't wait for round 2! good luck everyone
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Mhb
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I was exhausted when I started so my character just fell asleep 😂
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Kneazle
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I just read through my story. Holy typo Batman!
There were a lot of mistakes I missed. I swear one day I'll finish a story for this contest with enough time to get a Beta read.
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Suave
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Yeah, it is all about planning a head. Contact a few people to see who could do a late read in the days leading up to the deadline. You can maybe do a read for them earlier and then when you finally sed to them they are ready for you. When I am doing a lot of betaing for others - flash fiction is short enough for that - I am usually on it right away and they have it back 15 min or so. The short Story is a much longer read so I keep my beta reading down to something manageable.
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Paesano
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Last year (my first year) I had a magnificently stressful week and didn't get the writing down until the Saturday. And I didn't have any idea what a beta reader was. I had a typo and got nailed by judges.
I was proud of my story but I feel that the typo knocked me out of advancing even if the judges liked my story (and the feedback was overwhelmingly positive, EVEN THOUGH none of them caught my big literary allusion).
This year, I was able to be more methodical with brainstorming, planning, researching, drafting and getting involved with two beta readers. So I am hoping we caught all the typos, and their feedback helped the story to be tight and well rounded. I just worry that I have too many characters (two or three main, two or three supporting) to flesh them out enough in the short space to please the judges. |
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