500 words

Phew that's over. 500 words I mean. The deadline has passed. Submit button been pressed and all is fine. Or at least until the whole "oh my gosh was my story really truly good enough" thing kicks in.
I am not giving any spoilers about what my story is about but I can tell you what it is not about.
Basically I had a story idea. It was going to be the most amazing book of all time....I wrote pages and pages on this subject and everyone I showed it to thought it was really good - not bragging or anything though. So when 500 words came around this year, I was like "why shouldn't I enter it, since it is my last year before I am too old, I may as well go out with a kabam".
I wrote it up on my laptop, tweaking it to fit the requirements. The only problem was that no matter how hard I tweaked or how much I cut out, the characters refused to be cut down to 500 words.
This has happened to me in every single year of me entering 500 words.
In the end I wrote a brand new story on a totally different subject, like 4 hours before the deadline.
It is good-ish (or at least I think it is?!) but it meant me giving up on a few awesome ideas from the last story, that I will tell you because all they will do otherwise is sit on my shelf;

A Jack Sparrow like character who is one of the leaders of a global gang of highwaymen in the sky.

A teenage stowaway and his lil sister

A girl power kind of tough girl figure who fly's after her kidnapped brother

An evil dude with many faces who has fingers in all the major cites of the world apart from one

Good guys being forced to be bad guys and hunt other good guys including the only two people
who could possibly stop this evil dude.

Magical ponies flying through the sky....

Actually no, not that last one. All those things don't sound very impressive when written down like that....but I promise they do all work together but it is too complicated to break down. *sorry*.

 

Did anybody else enter 500 words? See you soon x