Discussion -- 300 Word Challenge #2

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I liked your story, Gary. Hmmm, hidden secrets. I didn't catch any of those. Back to the story to see if I can find them ...
 
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MstrTal said:
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My story is troubling me. I have the bare bones hammered out. I even finally settled on a style, deciding on nothing fancy. However the dialog is not coming together! I can't seem to get my efforts up to par with all your horribly wonderful entries. This is disheartening.
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Ah, but the bare bones are the most important part for giving your creation structure; time to flesh it out now. Don't be disheartened!
 
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paranoid marvin said:
Ah, but the bare bones are the most important part for giving your creation structure; time to flesh it out now. Don't be disheartened!
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Well I tried to flesh it out.

In fact in the middle of editing it for length it took a complete 180 degree turn stylistically from how it started. :rolleyes:

What can I say its one of the fun surprises that come with writing!
 
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Well I've done it.

Why is it you can proof read, edit and re-edit, a few hundred words twenty or thirty times and still find you've made a mistake?

I reckon it's something to do with the need for perfection. If it was just any old 300 words you wouldn't make half the mistakes.

That 'word' program is a bu**er too. Luckily I rechecked it with IE explorers spell check before the final commit. There were two words that word had changed to something weird.

Time for the darkened room for me now though. Challenge finished, where are the rest of you.

Yah Boo Sucks.
 
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Brilliant job TiEN, That's my favorite so far apart from mine...hee hee:eek:
 
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nixie said:
Ahem....Mr Fickle, I thought mine was... :p:p
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How embarrassing. My memory seems to be playing up again...ahem!

Well the fact you're a moderator is swaying me - sorry TiEN. You're fired to coin a phrase. XXX
 
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Gary Compton said:
How embarrassing. My memory seems to be playing up again...ahem!

Well the fact you're a moderator is swaying me - sorry TiEN. You're fired to coin a phrase. XXX
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Oh that's charmin'.

Cast aside like used toilet paper.

Just because Nixie is a moderator. PAH!!!

Well, I know where you live. (Planet Earth I believe).

Please accept this as termination of your membership of the "What Day Is It" club and the daily reminder, subscription service, will be cancelled.:)

I agree with you Nixie. A fickle fellow and no mistake.
 
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TheEndIsNigh said:
Oh that's charmin'.

Cast aside like used toilet paper.

Just because Nixie is a moderator. PAH!!!

Well, I know where you live. (Planet Earth I believe).

Please accept this as termination of your membership of the "What Day Is It" club and the daily reminder, subscription service, will be cancelled.:)

I agree with you Nixie. A fickle fellow and no mistake.
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Sorry TiEN, you're right Nixie is fired. Can I re-join the old-timers club:eek:
 
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Don't know yet but sadly she is dead.

What a waste of a talented young women.

If her so called friends are reading this - What did you do to stop this?

Just heard that idiot Darryn Lyons (Paparazzi king) rabbiting on Sky news . What an un-emotional. idiotic, complete, unsensitive prick.

For God's sake a mother and father have lost a child, and a great young women had died, probably due to lack of support from her friends and management.

I am disgusted, all it needed was someone of an older age to take her under their wing and steer her away from death. I am sad...
 
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I noticed there was an earlier thread (created by Judge) where people could offer a critique/analysis of the 75 word stories. I wonder if something similar could be created for the 300 word challenge. A chance to put your work out there for the other writers to offer their thoughts. Call it the 300 word challenge #2 Critique thread, or whatever. Point being that it would be a relatively contained space for everyone to ruminate and nitpick each others writing.
 
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slack said:
I noticed there was an earlier thread (created by Judge) where people could offer a critique/analysis of the 75 word stories. I wonder if something similar could be created for the 300 word challenge. A chance to put your work out there for the other writers to offer their thoughts. Call it the 300 word challenge #2 Critique thread, or whatever. Point being that it would be a relatively contained space for everyone to ruminate and nitpick each others writing.
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I think a 300-word story would deserve its own thread in Critiques. That's what I would do. (But make sure you don't post it until after the voting for that story is over.)
 
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HareBrain said:
I think a 300-word story would deserve its own thread in Critiques. That's what I would do. (But make sure you don't post it until after the voting for that story is over.)
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Well, I think having it's own thread here in this subforum has a couple benefits. First, we all generally understand that the work had a word limit and concessions had to be made, which might be lost on others who frequent the critique forums, but not necessarily the challenge threads. Second, some may feel like their entries are not worthy of their own thread in the critiques forum, but would nevertheless appreciate some kind of feedback.

I think it would be great and beneficial to have an on-going critique thread. I understand that some may not want that for fear the discussions may influence later votes, but I don't think that is a problem. The reality is that people already have their favorites, and that likely won't change in any negative way. If anything, discussions will bring a lot of subtlety out, and perhaps make voting even more of a challenge. In a good way, of course.
 
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Isn't there sort of an issue about discussing the stories before we vote on them? I mean, one of the problems with the short form is that some of us (well, some of me, maybe) have problems squishing our stories down into 300 words (you should've seen the original form of mine - it had subplots and romance, a car chase - everything) and although I would *love* to have the opportunity to explain more fully what I was talking about and the really clever bits I missed out, I'm not sure that would be fair to people who actually did squish their brilliant ideas down into 300 words.

I wondered when I was cutting out the car chase if one of the balances of the 300 word story was between complex/ clever ideas and ease of reading. Or maybe it just was for me - as you can see here, I find it very difficult to be concise ;)

Also, I often get influenced by other people's admiration - so even if I didn't like a story much when I read it, if other people were praising it, it might influence me in the voting.

I think if there was a critique thread (a) it should be an opt-in thread (ie: not everyone entering a story into a challenge would necessarily be assumed to be looking for a critique), (b) it should take place after voting to avoid the problem of explaining what you really meant and how it was oh-so-very-clever.
 
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Hex said:
Also, I often get influenced by other people's admiration - so even if I didn't like a story much when I read it, if other people were praising it, it might influence me in the voting.

I think if there was a critique thread (a) it should be an opt-in thread (ie: not everyone entering a story into a challenge would necessarily be assumed to be looking for a critique), (b) it should take place after voting to avoid the problem of explaining what you really meant and how it was oh-so-very-clever.
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I agree with these comments. I think a critique section for the stories is a good idea, but...... what Hex said.
 
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