Shrike Flamestar
The Invisible!
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The Small Writing Contest is over! Any thoughts, feelings, or regrets now that you're free from slaving away?
OMG I didn't write the longest entry this time?! My entry is "only" 3477 words and just over 5.5 pages long. :O Man, usually I completely dominate everything else in terms of length. On the sci-fi contest at Serebii last year, my entry (TRINITY: Waves) was by far the longest at 14957 words and 27 pages. Of course, for that one we had closer to a month to write whereas here we got a handful of days. Even disregarding the time crunch, my story (Three-Sixteen, or 316, 3:16, etc. I made it a point to spell out every single number for style reasons though, so the written title is the most correct one) simply would not work if it was much longer.
Overall the story went about how I had planned. The end is a compromise between the two endings I had considered, though, as the first was crap and I have no idea how it'd work, while the second was better but could be very touchy to some people. The final ending may still be touchy, but not as much.
My primary concern is two-fold, and both I've mentioned before but I'll repeat anyway. One is that I didn't utilize the prompt well enough. I do think though that I may just be stressing out over nothing here. I did use the prompt as evidenced by the title itself (which, might I add, mosty refers to three minutes and sixteen seconds rather than hours and minutes, however three hours and sixteen minutes does come into play in the story along with the more important minutes and seconds variation), however just in a different way than I imagine most people did. I'm also concerned that it simply won't be to everyone's tastes, as it deals with a topic that not everyone may appreciate (insanity) in a style and manner that may simply not do much for some people, or at worst disgust them due to the ZOMG violence and everything.
I really think I got the style and writing itself spot-on, and there's nothing I'd change there. The only thing which I would possibly change would be the ending, which is a bit anti-climatic and may not convey my intent too well. Personally, I think if I just worded it different it would be better but I couldn't come up with anything...
I'm...sort of shocked with you people and those spoilers :O
OMG I didn't write the longest entry this time?! My entry is "only" 3477 words and just over 5.5 pages long. :O Man, usually I completely dominate everything else in terms of length. On the sci-fi contest at Serebii last year, my entry (TRINITY: Waves) was by far the longest at 14957 words and 27 pages. Of course, for that one we had closer to a month to write whereas here we got a handful of days. Even disregarding the time crunch, my story (Three-Sixteen, or 316, 3:16, etc. I made it a point to spell out every single number for style reasons though, so the written title is the most correct one) simply would not work if it was much longer.
Overall the story went about how I had planned. The end is a compromise between the two endings I had considered, though, as the first was crap and I have no idea how it'd work, while the second was better but could be very touchy to some people. The final ending may still be touchy, but not as much.
My primary concern is two-fold, and both I've mentioned before but I'll repeat anyway. One is that I didn't utilize the prompt well enough. I do think though that I may just be stressing out over nothing here. I did use the prompt as evidenced by the title itself (which, might I add, mosty refers to three minutes and sixteen seconds rather than hours and minutes, however three hours and sixteen minutes does come into play in the story along with the more important minutes and seconds variation), however just in a different way than I imagine most people did. I'm also concerned that it simply won't be to everyone's tastes, as it deals with a topic that not everyone may appreciate (insanity) in a style and manner that may simply not do much for some people, or at worst disgust them due to the ZOMG violence and everything.
I really think I got the style and writing itself spot-on, and there's nothing I'd change there. The only thing which I would possibly change would be the ending, which is a bit anti-climatic and may not convey my intent too well. Personally, I think if I just worded it different it would be better but I couldn't come up with anything...
I may have chosen a girl as the main character, or I may not have. I intentionally never gave the character a name or gender, allowing the reader to interpret it as they want. In some ways the character does seem a lot like a girl, though, while in other places they seem more like a boy. They're androgynous. <_<Feign said:
I'm...sort of shocked with you people and those spoilers :O
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