FILL: Aged Halloween Treats? (5)

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original posting: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 23:31:42 -0400

EXERCISE: Scheduling a 3,000 word story?

2 days left?

48 hours?  2,880 minutes?  So at two words a minute, you've got time to write your story and have a bunch of words left over!

Or at 50 wpm, you can write 3,000 words in an hour, rewrite it a time or three, and still have 40 hours or so to fret over it.

No ideas?

Remember the old house with the scary shadows that everyone used to dare you to knock on the door?  Well, your best friend isn't chicken -- they just stomped up to the door and knocked while you waited.  The door creaked open, and they walked inside.  Or were they pulled in?  It was hard to see in the shadows.

Start there, and tell us about your visit to a house of terror...

But write faster, the deadline is sneaking closer, slithering across the seconds.  Don't you just hate the way they snicker and slither, faster and faster, even as you feel squeezed tighter and tighter against the wall...

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