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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 6717687" data-attributes="member: 34958">This wasn't my best work, but the limited word count pushed me to complete a more functional entry than a very imaginative one.  My first draft was over 1200 words and was a little more creepy in explaining the ingredients, like the desperate gnoll having been eating the dead due to his paranoid isolation, making him more desperate for conversation and a real meal.  Also, the death from above was worked out better due to the doppleganger's shapeshifting ability, where he modified his body to stretch out and look more like a elongated child with lengthy fingers and claws at the end he would use to slice into necks.  The higher (hidden) holes he slipped through made it harder to discover how the killer entered the rooms.At first, I almost centered my entire story around the painful pun, something like the Joker's gas from the Batman series but contagious upon telling instead of it being sprayed, but I couldn't fit enough ingredients into it to work.  I think tightening it all up made for a better piece of written work, though I wish some of my crazier ideas could have made the cut.LucasC, you have a great imagination, but in the future you will have to drop some of your favorite ideas in order to put in a cohesive entry that meets the word count limitations.  I'm not writing this as a critique, since I employed the same strategy as you just did when I first started contesting. Check out some of my first entries from years back, since you are getting the same exact advice I did.  I lost plenty of writing contests on here because I loved an idea more than I wanted to win.  But still jot those down, so you can use them later.  I made the mistake of not keeping up with some of my more imaginative ideas for adventures, and now many of those have been lost due to time and memory loss when they should have been salvaged.  I can't wait to see what you come up with next year.</blockquote>

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