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Fantasy Faction Writers => Monthly Writing Contest => [JUL 2020] Old Man's Tale => Topic started by: xiagan on June 01, 2020, 10:15:37 PM
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JULY: An Old Man's Tale
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UR A WIZARD HARRY by v-inks (https://www.deviantart.com/v-inks)
An old man's tale... told in the small hours in a forgotten tavern, on the death bed or to the shining eyes of a child. Filled with unbelievable stories, wars or regret. Told by an old woman because why not? "Old man's tale" is just a catchy phrase, told, or sung or cried or thought. Listen to them, they might be wise or foolish but you'll learn something in any case.
Please post your entry here (http://fantasy-faction.com/forum/new-board-286/(jul-2020)-old-man's-tale-submission-thread/).
Note: This thread is only for questions or discussing this month's writing contest. Good luck!
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I have my idea ready to go, can we get confirmation on if this one is also a 2000 word limit, or is it back to 1500?
(Praying for the former :P )
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Yep, we'll be doing 2000 these 3 months, then a little poll at the end for opinions :)
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Awesome, thanks for clarifying :)
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Well, I have characters and a plot... even the prospect of an ending... so I'm gonna try and join this month.
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Nice one, hopefully we'll get more entries this month :)
I reckon I'll have this month's polished off in a few days. It's a bit different (for me), so will be interesting to see how it goes down.
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Nice one, hopefully we'll get more entries this month :)
I reckon I'll have this month's polished off in a few days. It's a bit different (for me), so will be interesting to see how it goes down.
Looking forward to how you pull it off, as I have just been halted in my tracks by the thought that what I'm going for is heading to be 3/4 tell don't show and I'm not liking that at all. Might have to change the concept completely.
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I'm sure you can work it so that the ratio is cleaner. Personally I think telling has its place, I love Edgar Allen Poe and I feel like he 'tells' a heck of a lot. Though you'd know best with what you have in front of you.
I ended up with 2500 words for this and thought it was going to be impossible to chisel down. Normally I finish first draft around the mark, certainly not more than 150 over. But I've painstakingly got it down to 2000 and just need to go over it a few more times to be happy with it.
Hope you can get yours to where it needs to be, I have faith :)
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You have a lot of time though! I often feel it's best to leave it alone as long as possible, so I clear away these impressions of how important to the story such and such bits are. When I'm fresh off of finishing, everything feels perfect and uneditable ;D
I think I'll try the second idea for change.
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Yeah, I tend to get my idea and then just see it through while it's fresh. I'll return to it multiple times over the month to make sure it's right. I have changed story completely a couple of time too (or just given up, as happened with the Erotica challenge...).
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I think I have at least a concept down, and maybe a character or two. Hopefully I'll be able to maintain steam this month.
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I'm having so much trouble with this one. I keep having ideas, but none of them seem sustainable as a full story.
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I'm having so much trouble with this one. I keep having ideas, but none of them seem sustainable as a full story.
I know the struggle. I've discarded two ideas which are fine in themselves but not manageable for this month. The third will do, I think, but it's going to be a tongue in cheek one, given the theme...
Come on we still have some time!!
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I managed to take some of my ideas and form them into a poem. This was such a hard topic! :-[
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Almost done with mine, but not sure I'll make it. Was busy all day due to a friend moving in to my flat. No time to myself until super late in the day.
Maybe can be done tomorrow...
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I'm keeping it open until the end of the weekend, working people can have the extra time.
Anyone else working on their story?
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My story is done, I think, just needs a final read through. I'm not entirely happy with it, but I need to get used to showing people my writing. This will be the first time anyone other than close friends read anything I've written, and it feels good to finally be at that point.
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Yay a newbie!
Best of luck, @Kindly :D
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Thanks! :D
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Whoa thanks so much Bea... I woke up early today after barely 5h sleep, gave up after breakfast and rolled back into bed. Slept 3 more hours, dreamt of riding a T-rex, spiders, dating sims, black panthers and petting a panther cub, and lots more weird stuff. Ah lots of spiders too. now it's 2pm, I'm finally "up" and I'm super shit faced as if from a too long nap, and I now have to defrost our freezer... ::) Having a couple extra days will relax my day a lot.
Edit : I just posted! Thanks so much Bea for leaving it open over the weekend, it made all the difference, because I slacked till so late!
Feels amazing to be back with a half decent story I'm not ashamed of.