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<blockquote data-quote="tglassy" data-source="post: 7503087" data-attributes="member: 6855204"><p>I appreciate the encouragement. Most of my losses are close ones, and they affect me the hardest. I tend to lose more often than I win, and since my losses are very often close ones, it's frustrating. </p><p></p><p>I'm a writer, and I've found that a strict word count tightens up my content. I like to write whatever I want to write, and prefer to wind up 10% - 20% higher than the word count, because then it forces me to cut things that aren't necessary. Cutting words, rewriting phrases to fit easier, finding whole sentences, or the jackpot, whole paragraphs, that you learn just aren't furthering the goal of the piece do great things to help the readability and tighten up the flow. You can cut too much, but there's a balance there. The good news is that nothing I cut wound up being anything that would have helped me. </p><p> </p><p>I did really love the Idiom part. I brought up a list of Idioms and started reading through them. I've been practicing with writing poetry, and started writing a short one using as many idioms as I could find that fit the bill. </p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Come and play <strong>Devil’s Advocate</strong>! <strong>Well begun is half done,</strong> but can you <strong>whether the storm</strong>? Before you is a maze of magic and might, beyond young maidens do quiver with fright. You must continue through <strong>thick and thin</strong>, but you must also<strong> run like the wind</strong>. <strong>Leave no stone unturned</strong> as you riddle each gate but take too much time and you’ll be <strong>checkmate</strong>. For within I<strong> kill two birds with one stone</strong>, a Minotaur hunts, his bloodlust has grown.”</span></span></p><p></p><p>So that's what, 8 idioms? And then making the gates based on idioms was fun, too. I wondered if the party would get it, and realize that they needed to follow an idiom to answer the riddle. That's why I included so many in the opening poem, but I made them simple enough that even a party who, in reality, has dumped their Int as far as it could go and never got the idiom part of the riddles, a little trial and error should help them figure it out. </p><p></p><p>Also, I used Checkmate because it fit, and it rhymed with Gate. And I love Chess. </p><p></p><p>I wish I hadn't said "Whether" rather than "Weather". Would the omission of one grammar error have given me a point in readability? Probably not but who knows? That would have tied the points and made it even closer. Nothing else could really have been changed to make my work stronger.</p><p></p><p>It is interesting to note that Deuce gave both his points to Gradine for the same reason. Namely, that those two individual ingredients were connected to each other. I'll need to keep that in mind for next year. One connection between two ingredients lost me the match. Oh well. Good adventure, @<em><strong><u><a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=57112" target="_blank">Gradine</a></u></strong></em>! Now go on to win! If I can't win, I'd rather loose to the one who does!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tglassy, post: 7503087, member: 6855204"] I appreciate the encouragement. Most of my losses are close ones, and they affect me the hardest. I tend to lose more often than I win, and since my losses are very often close ones, it's frustrating. I'm a writer, and I've found that a strict word count tightens up my content. I like to write whatever I want to write, and prefer to wind up 10% - 20% higher than the word count, because then it forces me to cut things that aren't necessary. Cutting words, rewriting phrases to fit easier, finding whole sentences, or the jackpot, whole paragraphs, that you learn just aren't furthering the goal of the piece do great things to help the readability and tighten up the flow. You can cut too much, but there's a balance there. The good news is that nothing I cut wound up being anything that would have helped me. I did really love the Idiom part. I brought up a list of Idioms and started reading through them. I've been practicing with writing poetry, and started writing a short one using as many idioms as I could find that fit the bill. [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Verdana]Come and play [B]Devil’s Advocate[/B]! [B]Well begun is half done,[/B] but can you [B]whether the storm[/B]? Before you is a maze of magic and might, beyond young maidens do quiver with fright. You must continue through [B]thick and thin[/B], but you must also[B] run like the wind[/B]. [B]Leave no stone unturned[/B] as you riddle each gate but take too much time and you’ll be [B]checkmate[/B]. For within I[B] kill two birds with one stone[/B], a Minotaur hunts, his bloodlust has grown.”[/FONT][/COLOR] So that's what, 8 idioms? And then making the gates based on idioms was fun, too. I wondered if the party would get it, and realize that they needed to follow an idiom to answer the riddle. That's why I included so many in the opening poem, but I made them simple enough that even a party who, in reality, has dumped their Int as far as it could go and never got the idiom part of the riddles, a little trial and error should help them figure it out. Also, I used Checkmate because it fit, and it rhymed with Gate. And I love Chess. I wish I hadn't said "Whether" rather than "Weather". Would the omission of one grammar error have given me a point in readability? Probably not but who knows? That would have tied the points and made it even closer. Nothing else could really have been changed to make my work stronger. It is interesting to note that Deuce gave both his points to Gradine for the same reason. Namely, that those two individual ingredients were connected to each other. I'll need to keep that in mind for next year. One connection between two ingredients lost me the match. Oh well. Good adventure, @[I][B][U][URL="http://www.enworld.org/forum/member.php?u=57112"]Gradine[/URL][/U][/B][/I]! Now go on to win! If I can't win, I'd rather loose to the one who does! [/QUOTE]
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