The Org's Writing Contest 2011!

**Vuk** · 05-26-2011, 18:20

Originally Posted by Andres

Since we're not aiming for historical accuracy, you're pretty free in what you come up with. I, for one, would certainly welcome some comedy.

Comedy? I think I can do that...

**Warluster** · 05-27-2011, 08:02

Had such a motivational idea for a tale the other day! Finished drafting/planning the whole thing and finally got to writing it through. Just realised I've hit the 1 500 mark and have only finished the introduction. What a damn shame... back to the drawing boards. Or the planning boards, in this case. Must make it short and sweet!

**Vuk** · 05-27-2011, 15:31

Originally Posted by Warluster

Had such a motivational idea for a tale the other day! Finished drafting/planning the whole thing and finally got to writing it through. Just realised I've hit the 1 500 mark and have only finished the introduction. What a damn shame... back to the drawing boards. Or the planning boards, in this case. Must make it short and sweet!

Yeah, I for one think that 5k words is much more reasonable, but whatever. I took an idea I had for one of my stories and set it in Japan. I ended up getting to nearly 7k words by time I noticed and I said #$@% it, I will just keep writing. I am just gonna work it back into my other story and write something else for the contest. I will probably do a short comedy.

**Heir_of_Alexander** · 05-27-2011, 20:06

I`ll see what I can put together by the 12th, got my midterms now, but I will try ;).

**Beskar** · 06-06-2011, 20:01

I have done a similar piece before, you basically have to write out a basic scene, and not make it into a book, that is how I got around it. This got me hitting 2.4k words, then I trimmed that down to 1.7k.

Though a mistake I made was forgetting this was set in Japan, so I am rather behind.