serakit ([personal profile] writerkit) wrote2020-08-12 01:47 am

Word Counts

You ever have those days where you start writing something to submit to a flash fiction market, get a few sentences into it, realize what your concept is, and then go "Welp, this is going to be longer than the 750 words this market allots?"

(Which is fine; it's harder science fiction than I normally write and there are, I think, actually *more* places to submit that than my usual space opera and fantasy. I'm just amused/exasperated at my concept deciding it has a mind of its own.)
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[personal profile] siderea 2020-08-12 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)
This is approximately what happens to everything I write. "I know, I'll set this large project aside to pop off a quick piece on this other topic, which I can do in a couple hours." Three days and 20k words later....