[ SECRET POST #2992 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2992 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Grand Theft Auto 5]


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03.
[Zipang]


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04.
[Ricky Gervais]


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05.
[Tokyo Babylon/X1999]


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06.
[Dexter]


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07.
[The Mentalist]


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08.
[The Truth - Terry Pratchett]


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09.
[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]


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10.
[Douglas Adams]


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11.
[Black Books]


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12.
[Lucky Star]


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13.
[Edward Petherbridge as Lord Peter Wimsey]


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14.
[Ga-In, Brown Eyed Girls]


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15.
[Oz the Great and Powerful]


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16.
[Colin Baker]


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17.
[9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors]


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18.
[Yatterman Night]


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19.
[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]


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20.
[Blake's 7]


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21.
[Game Grumps]


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22.
[Alexis Denisof]







Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 07 pages, 170 secrets from Secret Submission Post #428.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Question (in need of advice)

[(Anonymous)]

Well, first I'd ask if it was really necessary. What's your end result look like? Is it a good story with decent pacing? Does the plot flow well, with few unnecessary tangents or sub plots that don't add anything to the overall work? If it's a good story with good flow and pacing, then I'm not sure it "needs" to be shorter, per se.

But if you're worried about length because you're trying to follow a specific guideline, then maybe it's time to ask yourself if you're simply squeezing too much plot into one story. I had a friend like this. It wasn't enough for him to write an awesome story about a space cowboy wandering the galaxy in his ship with only a sentient octopus for a companion until he's called upon to rescue a dying planet, it just HAD TO BE a story about a whole army of space cowboys with sentient octopuses and bionic arms who were marooned from Planet Xenar, the descendants of a lost colony from Earth during the Cold War who were also secretly infiltrated by the Illuminati, and the dying planet they had to rescue was really the sole habitat for a species of exotic lily whose pollen was a cure for the disease that was killing the Queen of the Mole People, a legendary cosmic seer and prophetess who...

You get the idea. Not that the ideas weren't great, but he just could not cram all of that in and still get a coherent story at the end. But! He didn't want to leave ANY of it out, and refused to edit it enough to where she was left with a plot that still made sense. You can ruthlessly edit something and still fail to do a good editing job, unfortunately. It's not just cutting out words, it's knowing where to cut and how to reshape what's left.

I'll ask you this... how much 10K length fiction do you read? Because if you're not reading lots of short fiction, you're missing out on a good resource. See what other authors are doing to keep their stories that length and still tell a good story.