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Ennazus 
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I still need to cut at least 438 words. Beta readers like the story, and (like me) have a hard time cutting anything. Took a break (Appletinis or equivalent)! About to go kill my darlings. Wish me luck.
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Read my 1st Round story titled Nothing Last Forever Except ...
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Posted: 07 Apr 2019 at 8:55pm |
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In an hour or two I'll check the assignments and realize I got my eyes crossed and just wrote a story for some other heat...  |
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Seacore
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Posted: 07 Apr 2019 at 8:48pm |
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Yes, I think my heat definitely got the more straight forward of the two thriller prompts. |
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Cosima
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Posted: 07 Apr 2019 at 8:44pm |
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 I did that too--mine ended up at 1992. I know it's irrational, since I've read numerous times they go with the lower word count between Word and Google Docs, but I keep thinking somehow I miscounted. |
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Seacore
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Posted: 07 Apr 2019 at 8:41pm |
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I'm with you on the panic about "did this correctly submit" I'll only check a few more times before close. But I suppose that's why we email it as well.
I found I really struggled on a title, which is not a common thing for me. But I couldn't find an essence to distil my story down into, which worried me. So I ended up changing a piece of dialogue to hang the title from.
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manifestlynot
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Posted: 07 Apr 2019 at 8:41pm |
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Submitted at 1998 words (took two out just to be safe). Not my best effort, but my husband likes it, which is probably a good indicator of a romance, haha.
Mostly I'm relieved not to have it in my head anymore. I'm one round further than I made it in SSC last year, so that's good enough for me.
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Cosima
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Posted: 07 Apr 2019 at 8:41pm |
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I'll take one of those appletinis!
That was hard. I'm...happier with how my story turned out than I thought I'd be. No idea what the judges will think, but I did the best I could with a weird set of prompts.
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Meggles
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Posted: 07 Apr 2019 at 8:38pm |
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I keep submitting and reading and tweaking and resubmitting. Soooo I’ve officially banned myself from my laptop. Pass the appletinis!
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crumhorn
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Posted: 07 Apr 2019 at 8:30pm |
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Reread just now, fixed one mistake, and resubmitted. I'm not sure this story is particularly inspired, but I had fun writing it! Nice to be done and I look forward to the forum. :-)
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alelha
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Posted: 07 Apr 2019 at 8:00pm |
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I thought I did that as well. You can check submittable and it shows you all the info under content so you can check.
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