Working on a story of a themed anthology and came up with one I really liked. But by the time the protagonist had been confronted by the baddies, triumphed thanks to a little lateral thinking and was on a bus out of town, it was 6400 words long.
The anthology has a hard limit: 5000 words, no more. Run that thing back through the typewriter!
The first pass tightened up the language, removed a few mistakes and got it down to just under 5900 words Now I've got to start looking at trimming whole scenes.
Gonna hold on to the solid-bronze Harpies until the very last second, though.
BUILDING A 1:1 BALUN
4 years ago
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