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Only One So Far

Only One So Far

About twenty-two hours ago, the new prompt for the WDC Short Story Contest showed up. That was only about an hour or two since I last checked to see if there was a prompt yet. Luckily, I checked it again about ten hours ago before I started working on my DeathBringers scriptwriting project. Otherwise, I would start working on it until now.

I would have continued working on my DeathBringer scriptwriting project, and I wouldn’t have known about this until I checked it again for any more Short Story Contests this month. I would have written this blog entry under my other blog, Only My Scriptwriting, instead of this one. I also would have waited a day to write this Short Story.

Today was already partially wasted because of what my brother and I needed to accomplish today, but that was mainly this morning. I only wasted an hour or two this afternoon before I started working on this Short Story. Luckily, I went in to check to see if this prompt had been posted. That’s when I found out I barely missed it yesterday.

It took me another couple of hours to think of a Short Story to fit this WDC prompt for this year. That meant I only had about three hours to start working on the setup for this Short Story. Like I started most of my short stories, I wrote a three to five-paragraph outline for this Short Story. That’s about as far as I got today.

I did come up with a title for this Short Story, the Short Story description, and the ten sentences for each part of this Short Story. It was while I was writing these ten sentences that I realized I needed to adjust my paragraphs above this Short Story. Why did I need to adjust anything? It’s because of the way this Short Story looked.

The way I wanted to describe this Short Story was based on a lot younger female. Still, as the ten sentences progressed, I realized this Short Story might not be well received by the StoryMaster and the StoryMistress because of the subject matter. Instead of taking the risk of this being rejected because of its content, I decided to change it.

Unfortunately, I only started changing it when I had to stop for the day to write this blog entry. I will continue working on this Short Story tomorrow. I know that there are a few things my brother and I need to do tomorrow and Friday, but I don’t think it will be that bad. I should have plenty of time to work on this Short Story this week.