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    Posted: 21 May 2022 at 9:35am
I've ploughed through the "This story's amazing" phase and have officially arrived at the "Crushing self-doubt" phase. What about everyone else? CryLOL

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This working on picking an idea for a first draft, so you're ahead of me! Woke up with the threat of a migraine, so trying to take care of myself while getting as much figured out in my head as I can. 

Learning interesting things through mild research of course. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote lgeverdell Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 May 2022 at 11:43am
My first draft came in... UNDER THE WORD LIMIT. 
So now of course I'm paranoid it's garbage.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Steven Kay Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21 May 2022 at 11:59am
Not quite finished my first draft yet, and naturally it's approaching the 1,800 mark before I've even started the final act. The scissors will be out in force later...

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I’m almost ready to start thinking about my story…
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Originally posted by Silverlock Silverlock wrote:

I’m almost ready to start thinking about my story…

To be fair, tomorrow is a write off for me (flying to another country at 8am and it's already 8pm now!) so I had to pretty much finish it today!
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Spent most of the afternoon trying to figure out if there’s any way for a “treasure hunt in the desert” story, a classic staple of the action-adventure genre, to fit into the thriller genre instead.

And I swear to y’all, the conclusion I reached was, “yes, if it takes place at night.” Apparently my hangup was that thrillers are darker than action-adventure, and my brain decided that “‘make it literally, physically dark” was the solution. 

So we’ll see how this goes.
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This information may be on the website, but I'm not seeing it: is it still the top 5 from each group going through?  So there will be 45 people in Round 4?
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Originally posted by Silverlock Silverlock wrote:

This information may be on the website, but I'm not seeing it: is it still the top 5 from each group going through?  So there will be 45 people in Round 4?

Top three this round...
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Originally posted by nod1v1ng nod1v1ng wrote:

Originally posted by Silverlock Silverlock wrote:

This information may be on the website, but I'm not seeing it: is it still the top 5 from each group going through?  So there will be 45 people in Round 4?

Top three this round...

Oh. That's the sound of my confidence plummeting by 40%...
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