Winter 2013 Short Workshop is now ON

An April Fools Day prank would fit this theme nicely (in addition to being seasonal).

Good idea!

I'm going to have a story in by tonight, but I'm not going to be able to get it under 1,000 words. Therefore I will submit it but I won't submit it as a workshop entry. It might be best if it isn't visible until after the voting ends, but I leave that up to the librarians.

JKIJ wrote: I'm going to have a story in by tonight, but I'm not going to be able to get it under 1,000 words. Therefore I will submit it but I won't submit it as a workshop entry. It might be best if it isn't visible until after the voting ends, but I leave that up to the librarians.

Sad to hear that but after taking a look at it, it's clear that bringing your story down on a thousand words would've been too difficultt.

As for the rest, keep in mind that the deadline is in a few hours, so if you have something ready, then you better submit it as well. Right now we have six stories and I'm pretty sure at least one story has yet to be submitted.

I'm afraid not. I originally planned to use the story I wrote, but as I got writing it just got much too big to have any hope of cutting it down. I tried at first but quickly found I was cutting too much so I ended up ditching my plan and expanding the story a little instead. I always knew that I would sometimes be challenged by the 1000 word limit, since using too many words is a weakness of mine when I write anything. I'm sure I'll have another go at the next short story workshop, hopefully with more success.

I'm sorry that I haven't managed to get an entry into this workshop. The 1000 words is part of the challenge and the dun for me. I think I need to be less ambitious and less attached to my original ideas. I look forward to reading the entries when they are posted.

I think that the short story should be a minimum of 1000 words and a maximum of 5000 words. There have been some great stories in these short work shops but because of their length, the stories abruptly stop or are so edited that the details become irrelivent.

I had a story for this work shop, and chop and edit as much as much as I did I couldn't get it below 1400 words.

Imo If someone comes out with a 1000 word story, great.....If someone wants to throw a 4000 word story in the mix. That should be fine as well

Looking forward to reading these and giving feedback!

I was very tempted to enter this one but ended up focusing on editing. Thanks in advance for the fun reads.

I voted for "Brief engagement" it's original!

Congratulations to the entrants, can't wait to get some time to check them out!

I did/do have a story, but got hit with the flu last week which pretty much took me out, so my story is in an unfinished state. I'll try to get it finished up and submitted to be tagged with the contest, as soon as I get realigned with the world and caught up with the work.