Upcoming Short Story! · 2:42am Jul 5th, 2015
I recently won a competition against authors much better than I am. I'm still not sure how. (First place out of 57 short stories in last month's The Writeoff Association contest, specifically.)
I am continuing to modify the story for publication which I am fairly certain will make it much better for everypony except Titanium Dragon.
I'm sure you're all hungry to read it, but perfection (well, embetterination, at least) takes time. I really don't want to rush this one. I'm expanding it significantly. Some basic but powerful insights provided by Bradel have enabled me to reconfigure my approach and I think the result will be very suspenseful (and dark).
Darkspenseful, even? Only time will tell. It will probably be ready in a couple of days, but I'm leery of publishing in the middle of the work week. Is that a bad idea in terms of views? This one is going to be a real gem, I hope, and I really don't want to do something dumb that would make it miss the front page (assuming it actually deserves time there).
Congrats on your win! It was an excellent story. I'm looking forward to reading the embetterineditification.
I got sixth place and like, a thousand upvotes.
Just think about how many you're going to get!
3208021
Let my use my Bad Horse calculator here...
Carry the five, and...
Seven?! Well, fuck me.