DISCUSSION -- JULY 2017 300-word Writing Challenge (#26)

[HoopyFrood]

297 is my absolutely upper limit. Can't go past that

 

[Phyrebrat]

I love scrivener for its word count which is always right.

The problem I have with counting is if I think two words are one. Like Ursa I err on the side of caution.

pH

 

[Danny McG]

The problem I have with counting is if I think two words are one. Like Ursa I err on the side of caution.

pH

I do that alot

 

[Danny McG]

Some good 'uns in so far.
I've started two different stories and didn't like the way they were developing, too dark!
I need my happy thoughts back

 

[Starbeast]

I'm in. 298 is close enough. Faints...

 

[Cathbad]

I do that alot

Grrr

 

[Dan Jones]

I do that alot

You're skating on thin ice there, meladdo.

 

[Joshua Jones]

I'm in, with exactly 300 by my count. And a big experiment with protagonist, combining prose and two different meters of lyric, an atypical rhyming pattern...

 

[Danny McG]

You're skating on thin ice there, meladdo.

I couldn't resist it when Phyrebrat said about thinking two words were one. Golden opportunity to casually drop the big no-no!

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Just a reminder that the word count pixie can always be asked in advance of posting

Anyway I'm on hols so no story yet

 

[Luiglin]

Just a reminder that the word count pixie can always be asked in advance of posting

Anyway I'm on hols so no story yet

I thought @nixie was the SLAP pixie not the word count pixie?

 

[Jo Zebedee]

I thought @nixie was the SLAP pixie not the word count pixie?

There is more this one pixie in this little enchanted website

 

[Joshua Jones]

Just a reminder that the word count pixie can always be asked in advance of posting

Anyway I'm on hols so no story yet

Such pixies are most appreciated, though I asked a word count Pegasus with judiciary leanings for a judgement on one word (Terraformation) and counted the only other potentially problematic word as two (I wasn't seeing bio-generator being one word...). She, in turn, took my inquiry to the Mystical Council of Word Counting (MCWC) who ruled it one word.

My word also strangely came back smelling of pixie dust... you don't know anything about that, do you?

 

[Cathbad]

Pixie dust - and pixies for that matter - smell like lavender, to me.

 

[Joshua Jones]

Pixie dust - and pixies for that matter - smell like lavender, to me.

That is odd; they smell like cumin to me. Then again, my exposure is to North American pixies.

 

[Joshua Jones]

@nixie , would you be willing to shed some light on this whole "Lavender/Cumin" issue, or is this part of the pixie deep lore not available to outsiders?

 

[Tywin]

300 words exactly, and I'm not happy with it. This always happens when I jot out a 400+ word scene and then cut it down to fit. I try to keep too much and lose the feel of what I'm after.

 

[Luiglin]

300 words exactly, and I'm not happy with it. This always happens when I jot out a 400+ word scene and then cut it down to fit. I try to keep too much and lose the feel of what I'm after.

I'm the same with the 75s. You crop it down so far that the tale doesn't truly represent the original.

 

[Heijan Xavier]

Yeah. My most well received 75 worder was fluffed up from about 60.

 

[Heijan Xavier]

300 words exactly, and I'm not happy with it. This always happens when I jot out a 400+ word scene and then cut it down to fit. I try to keep too much and lose the feel of what I'm after.

I see what you mean. There are certain connections I'm forced to make, yet in searching for them, encounter many variables and don't read with confidence, because I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly.