Hello!
Same dealio as the previous Summer
Contest I entered! The limit this time was 1500 words and the theme was dubiously
titled 'Let's Fall in love'...
I had to scrap my ideas as this was sequentially unpacked! At
first I planned my story to be about the sentence - a love story using the line
directly. Then it was revealed that it was not to do with the sentence at all
but instead had to be written around the words 'Fall' and 'Love'. Not ideal, as
it meant the story I'd planned didn't work! So I had to plan another! And did!
Then it transpired that the word 'Fall' specifically meant the
season! (Not very kind given that it's an international contest!) No wiggle
room on interpretation allowed either! This caught a lot of us out on two
fronts - people in my camp who took the word to mean 'the act of falling down',
(So there was another complete story scrapped!) and the secondary impact in
that other people set their stories in a different season! It's not just a case
of simply changing the setting! Not if you want to win! It has to be a key
factor in the story... making a lot of peoples' ideas redundant! (Unfortunately
some of the authors in my group clearly didn't get the memo! Great stories, but
now ineligible for the contest!)
So I had to come up with something else entirely and didn't have
long to do it! In truth, my entry was a little rushed and that probably comes
across in the ending. I tend to over write my stories and pare them down naturally
but didn't have as much time as I'd like. It means that at the conclusion of
the contest I'll post the competition version of the story on here in the
future, but I also have plans to develop this one into something larger at a
later date!
Unfortunately the entry form played havoc with the formatting! In
my version there's a scene change that is indicated by a line break, but the
version on the website has converted the entire story to double line spacing
and swept away the transition to make it look like the conversation carries on
and suddenly we're in another place! Aside from definitely leaving my entry
dead in the water in terms of the contest, it means it doesn't read properly
for you guys either which I'm annoyed about!
Please take a look in any case, and help me out by voting for me in
the 'Readers' Choice Award' and maybe drop me a comment telling me what you
think of the piece! We DO have an end date to voting this time around (probably
down to those of us that asked for clarification the last time) and it's
September 12th at midnight Pacific Time.
Voting takes seconds! All you
have to do is click on the green button and select my story in the tiny form on
this website! -
My entry 'Partners in Crime' is
listed about half way down the page, or you can follow the quick link and read
it here -
Thanks in advance!
Until next time, buh-bye! :)
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* 09/09/2017 - The team at Short Fiction Break have since amended the scene change! Thanks to them for responding and reacting in time for the change to take place before the end of the public vote! :)
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* 09/09/2017 - The team at Short Fiction Break have since amended the scene change! Thanks to them for responding and reacting in time for the change to take place before the end of the public vote! :)
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