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Q&A show-don't tell with word limit

I took @Henry Taylor's advice and pruned some characters and dialog that added depth to the story but didn't move it forward. I also had a couple of unbiased third parties read it and made some cha...

posted 6y ago by H-Finch‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T07:13:39Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/35052
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision by user avatar H-Finch‭ · 2019-12-08T07:13:39Z (almost 5 years ago)
I took @Henry Taylor's advice and pruned some characters and dialog that added depth to the story but didn't move it forward. I also had a couple of unbiased third parties read it and made some changes before making a submission.

Final word count was a few dozen words shy of 5000.

And yeah, I won ;-)

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-04-13T10:51:15Z (over 6 years ago)
Original score: 1