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⌈ Secret Post #2992 ⌋

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[Grand Theft Auto 5]

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[Zipang]

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[Ricky Gervais]

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[Tokyo Babylon/X1999]

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[Dexter]

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[The Mentalist]

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[The Truth - Terry Pratchett]

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[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]

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[Douglas Adams]

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[Black Books]

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[Lucky Star]

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[Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter Wimsey]

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[Ga-In, Brown Eyed Girls]

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[Oz the Great and Powerful]

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[Colin Baker]

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[9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors]

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[Yatterman Night]

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[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]

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[Blake's 7]

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[Game Grumps]

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[Alexis Denisof]

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Maybe try to move your goalposts a bit? I once had a fic idea that seemed like a monster to me (two characters fall in love through letter-exchanges, one of them is a lawman and one a criminal. inspired by Catch Me If You Can), and I was trying to figure out how to make it /not/ be a gazillion-k fic, because I also have a tendency towards length.
So instead of starting at the beginning, I started at the end - from the very last letter one of them sends the other. That effectively cut down my fic by a lot, because a lot of what would have taken time turned into backstory instead of story-story.
So maybe try to reframe your stories so they "feel" shorter to you?

This is a good version of Vonnegut's advice, which is basically to start your story as close to the end as possible. Sometimes this can only be figured out in editing, where you end up writing more of the pre-history and then chop off whatever can just be inferred later on.

Anyway, his other bits of advice are here -

http://www.writingclasses.com/InformationPages/index.php/PageID/538

Vonnegut was always a good example of a writer that got it done as compact as possible; a lot of story in tight packages.

Well if I hit on Kurt Vonnegut's advice there's got to be something to it!

This is a great link, thanks so much :)

DA

This advice is from Bagombo Snuff Box, OP, and you really need to read it. In fact, everyone needs to read it.

...I'm not biased! Why would you say I'm biased? ;-)

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