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<blockquote data-quote="Milo Bloom" data-source="post: 568161" data-attributes="member: 9400"><p>What can I say in defense of my story? Not a whole lot really when it comes down to it. I entered the competition on the admission that by nature I am a fitful writer when it comes to stories. When I do write it tends to poetry and not actual fiction of any type.</p><p></p><p> As to the nature of the story and it's tone it came about rather oddly. I happened to be in one chat or another and someone was talking about the Illuminati. That stuck a little in my head as I initially sat down to write the story. I scrapped that idea in favor of something more Victorian. As I packed some of my toys I happened upon my "I've been Illuminated" Illuminati button. I took that as a sign and back I went to the story. Throughout that day I continued to write and pack.</p><p></p><p> Now as I said, I was initially heading down to Florida on the 1st of the year. As I wrote and packed on the 30th I was struck by the desire to spend New Years with my family. So I finished packing my belongings, loaded the dogs and headed 350 miles south.</p><p></p><p> Once I set down to write it was still in fits around during everything else on my list. So the story seems to have come out sounding very rushed. Some of the ingredients were slighted but the shield, tattoo, and crowd were supposed to be central. Late last night the crowd got deregulated to the screen in the control room. That left the tattoo and shield as central plot devices. The shield was the housing place for the stone so in reality it was supposed to be the main plot device. The tattoo was supposed to be the key Jean used to unlock how to open the shield. But that paragraph apparently got lost somewhere while dealing with my children.</p><p></p><p> The other major problem I think is I was not blatant enough in detailing the particular picture. Given the nature of the story paying attention to any detail would have seemed wrong somehow.</p><p></p><p></p><p> Congratulations to Mirthcard for keeping me from feeling like I cheated my way to the final round.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Milo Bloom, post: 568161, member: 9400"] What can I say in defense of my story? Not a whole lot really when it comes down to it. I entered the competition on the admission that by nature I am a fitful writer when it comes to stories. When I do write it tends to poetry and not actual fiction of any type. As to the nature of the story and it's tone it came about rather oddly. I happened to be in one chat or another and someone was talking about the Illuminati. That stuck a little in my head as I initially sat down to write the story. I scrapped that idea in favor of something more Victorian. As I packed some of my toys I happened upon my "I've been Illuminated" Illuminati button. I took that as a sign and back I went to the story. Throughout that day I continued to write and pack. Now as I said, I was initially heading down to Florida on the 1st of the year. As I wrote and packed on the 30th I was struck by the desire to spend New Years with my family. So I finished packing my belongings, loaded the dogs and headed 350 miles south. Once I set down to write it was still in fits around during everything else on my list. So the story seems to have come out sounding very rushed. Some of the ingredients were slighted but the shield, tattoo, and crowd were supposed to be central. Late last night the crowd got deregulated to the screen in the control room. That left the tattoo and shield as central plot devices. The shield was the housing place for the stone so in reality it was supposed to be the main plot device. The tattoo was supposed to be the key Jean used to unlock how to open the shield. But that paragraph apparently got lost somewhere while dealing with my children. The other major problem I think is I was not blatant enough in detailing the particular picture. Given the nature of the story paying attention to any detail would have seemed wrong somehow. Congratulations to Mirthcard for keeping me from feeling like I cheated my way to the final round. [/QUOTE]
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