Just under 23 hours left to submit (part 4 of 4)
@TerryTalksFiction @Themidnightwriter @topher @Velviit @ViktorSirin @xandria
Geez, pressure!! I tried removing the vowels from my 5,000, but that didn’t really work, so I am trying other compression techniques.
Say, what is the length limit expressed in bits? I am pretty sure I only need 7 bits for most of the way. That could bring me in under the line all by itself.
Wouldn’t want anyone to forget to submit! 
In other news, I am up to 956 words into the first draft. Lots to go!
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I have some surplus words I can sell you. Different place, different time. You could work it in as a flashback.
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Or a rum based “what really happened” scene. I may not have done that.
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This is pigfender we’re talking about. We should offer him a bundle, because he will need the words and the rum for that.
Don’t worry about the initial outlay, piggy, we can get it for you wholesale.
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Get it? Can’t I just pull from one of my import cases?
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Dude, we’re trying to run a racket here.
(So, you are also the wholesaler. Wink wink, nudge nudge.)
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Mission: to find 2000 expendable words. That’s a lot of fall guys. After hacking out a 1000, I made the disturbing discovery that my typescript had grown – by 1000 words! Not supernaturally or anything, it is just that I made a foolish sleep-deprived error in my initial count. Turns out my story had come in an 6k unbeknownst to me. Yeesh. So, yeah. I am lookin’ for 3000 fall guys – or another 2000, depending on how you like to think about.
“That’s right, sweetheart, you’re taking the fall!”
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I feel ya. I buried 2116 of my little gems in the tomb of brevity. I started by deleting my clever opening scene that was designed to give punch to the surprise ending. All in all, I think the story is better in its current reduced form.
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Just me talking to the walls here, but for the record, am switching to Plan B.
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Phew, finished and submitted! Thank you, Rog, for doing this, and I can’t wait to read what everyone came up with! 
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With dread, I have realized that I have somehow missed the original Welcome pack and didn’t know we even started.
Judging by the deadline, I can still fit in (probably), so I will try to wrap my flu-ridden brain around it.
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And I’m not ready - need to withdraw. Best of luck to everyone else!
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Well, my story is in. Wooo!
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I had an idea this morning. So
put my butt in chair
opened scrivener and wrote
still under 3k
Anyone else want to try “the * is an idiot challenge”
- Write a second story
- make both fit in the 3k work limit
- start the second one with less than 12hr left in SSiaM (Short Story in a Month)
Come on Grrrrrrr you know you want to…
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Check your spam to make sure you received it ok. 
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That is my whole Plan B! SSHAM (Short Story in a Hot Minute). Only in my version the 6k first story goes in the drawer.
In your honor, my SSHAM-B story has liquour. Though I had to change the rum to saki to make any likeness to persons real or imagined purely coincidental.
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This is true. I can confirm that * has indeed submitted two stories (within the total 3,000 limit).
(our first ever double-sub)
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Now you mention it, I never did receive an email from myself saying I’d gotten it and could open the file!
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