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I have spent the morning writing on this challenge. Will I be able to wrap the story up in another 500 or less words?
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Did the contest runners freak everyone out because they potentially typo-ly on accident fucked up the prompt in a clarification email just now? Yes.
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one of our prompts is that our story has to start and end with the same line - verbatim, with the only variation being tense. In their clarification, because a lot of people were asking, can we have a similar but not EXACTLY WORDED version of that sentence, they added a word to the prompt...
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so back to asking for clarification - did you mean to add that word, so instead of a mandatory ten words, we have a mandatory twelve? or was that a typo on behalf of your team? (if it was a typo, can we understand why people kind of want a variation allotment)
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meanwhile I will continue on in my journey of writing a complete faerie story in 2,000 words and hope that it was a typo and I won't have to fit those two extra words into the prompt sentence.
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you got thiiiis!!!
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okay, someone got an answer from the mods - they will now allow the original version of the prompt or the one with the extra word - those are now officially the only two variations of the prompt. (outside of tense) LMAO
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okay, DRAFT ONE IS DONE! I NEED TO THINK ON IT, LET IT REST
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I'll reread it tomorrow. Print the final copy Monday so Mom can beta it for me.
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and hopefully actually get this finished early.
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Also the wordcount is currently 1979 so if the couple people I can get to read it think it needs a little more, I have some play with words
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Go you!
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okay, I took the bullet and spent the $2 to print the story so mom could edit it yesterday. Edits have been made.

It also came to my awareness that halfway through the story I ended up shifting where the R in my main character's name was... so had to go through and fix that. oops.
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funny enough, despite some sentence reworks, the wordcount is the same. lmao
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