Thought Processes and Research behind the response for Chuck Wendig’s terribleminds’ 28 September 2012 blog flash fiction challenge: The Epic Game of Aspects Redux
Thoughts on the Randomly Rolled Challenge Elements Okay, so I nearly gave up when I rolled for this week’s challenge. I rolled 20 for ‘Sub-Genre’ which resulted in ‘fan fiction’. I have never written fan fiction in my life before, so my mind went a total blank and I didn’t think I could do it. I just about gave up then and there. As you can see I didn’t, just couldn’t help rolling that dice twice more and receiving a 16 and a 3 for my efforts. At first, I was going to use them for an alternative Sub-Genres response, but that felt too much like cheating so I just went with the results, in order for the next two categories: 16 = ‘Family Thrown Apart!’ as a Conflict/Problem and 3 = Sea Monster for the Element to Include. Work Time I started writing my first draft and researching at 12:39, 1 October 2012, Australian Eastern Standard Time. I finished the first draft 13:42, 3 October 2012. I spent four hours on it on the 1 st and three-and-a-half hours on the 3 rd . I just coul...