In an amazing departure for myself, I completed an entry for the contest at The Clarity of Night during my lunch hour, a full week before the contest ends! Normally, I’m the king of procrastination. I think the difference is that I have been writing a lot more lately, especially on Ficlets.com. Maybe all that writing is paying off. Anyhow, I will let you know once he has posted my entry so you can go over there and check it out.
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That’s wild, strugglingwriter. Last night (night–not the best time for me to do anything more complicated than sleep, actually) I wrote a full draft of mine in about an hour. I figured, 250 words, shouldn’t be too hard. I’m a little afraid to read the thing today, though. . . .
caveblogem – be afraid, be very afraid. Just kidding. I read my entry about 1000 times, because the first draft was around 300 words and I had to whittle it down to 250 words. I’m happy with it.
Struggles: I wrote one in about 20 minutes, and felt I could have kept going, but I was already at 350. So I whittled and whittled it back down and am just about to go and reread it to make sure it does what I intended before I send it in.
I am coming to realize that I am better at hosting these things than entering them.
Moon Topples – I think your entry is very good. It builds suspense as it goes. Nice work.