First I need to get a very, very specific visual in my head. This weeks topic was "strike" and what I finally settled on was Dru talking to a child whose throat she had ripped out. Then I think of what the flow should be. So I wanted Dru to complain that the child had spilled jam all over her dress (it turns out it's actually blood), I knew Spike would say that the child wasn't going to answer, Dru would explain that she felt spanking was wrong and then we finally get the description of the child sitting there, dead with her throat ripped out.
My first attempt was 116 words. I deleted one entire sentence and still had 8 words to cut. I rewrote one small part (originally I had written that the child's "eyes were shut tight and mouth wide open", I changed it to eyes and mouth opened wide) and got it down to exactly 100.
The big key is you want to pick one tiny moment and keep things very, very focused.
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This is how I wrote Sparing the Rod, this weeks OoS effort.
First I need to get a very, very specific visual in my head. This weeks topic was "strike" and what I finally settled on was Dru talking to a child whose throat she had ripped out. Then I think of what the flow should be. So I wanted Dru to complain that the child had spilled jam all over her dress (it turns out it's actually blood), I knew Spike would say that the child wasn't going to answer, Dru would explain that she felt spanking was wrong and then we finally get the description of the child sitting there, dead with her throat ripped out.
My first attempt was 116 words. I deleted one entire sentence and still had 8 words to cut. I rewrote one small part (originally I had written that the child's "eyes were shut tight and mouth wide open", I changed it to eyes and mouth opened wide) and got it down to exactly 100.
The big key is you want to pick one tiny moment and keep things very, very focused.