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So yeah. I decided to do it. In the end I came up with a pretty decent idea (I think). So I’ll just lay it out there since I’m still trying to come up with the details but I think I’ve got a pretty good grasp of the goal of the contest so I’ll just run through my thinking on how I’m gonna go through and do all this stuff.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/147184/lunar-tombstone

So basically the contest is meant to be for the judges. Not for RR as a whole. I mean, I’m already writing so off meta and so niche as my main book that this is basically no different. I can stick to my style of deep complex stories where multiple developments happen in a scene. In my normal writing I often structure a scene to depict both a character and a plot development occurring at the same time. This is important for me as I am an extremely slow reader and I write my stories for slow readers. Putting more meat into less words is incredibly important to me as a writer since that’s what I prioritize as a reader. This happens to be exactly what is necessary for the contest.

The limits for the contest are 8-40k words. I’m shooting for the low end of 8k words and will attempt to make a high impact story in 8k words. How is that possible? How am I supposed to fit a full character development and plot arc into 8k words. To sum it up, I have to cut my words in other areas. One of the biggest budget eaters in the wordcount is the worldbuilding. Worldbuilding can easily eat more than half of a word budget. So I decided to pull on literally every fantasy trope imaginable to reduce my worldbuilding to almost nothing.

With this, I’ll have 8k words of purely development and basically nothing else. The judges also aren’t typical RR readers so my off meta writing that isn’t LitRPG or progfantasy will actually stand a chance. I hope that my writing ability can stand up to others though. I consider myself quite new to this whole writing thing. My chances are low but like eh whatever. It’s kinda fun to participate and I don’t really lose anything if I don’t make it. And in the end, gambling is one of my favorite activities. 99% of gamblers quit before they win big. So, I’m not gonna quit on gambling for this contest win.