RE: Mariannewest Freewrite - The Sea Monster
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Absolutely brilliant, descriptive, immersive and engaging! It's almost miraculous how much you were able to cram into such a short story. Well done! You are very talented! That is a very special skill. I tend to be horribly long winded and find it very difficult to summarize or cut down on my word count. Well done!
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Thank you - it's a skill I've had to work hard at ! I worked out that Hive creative writing posts have a "sweet spot" of being about a 3-6 minute read. Anything longer and people just lose interest. So I trim out a lot of the descriptive detail and try to paint a picture by focusing on a few words with lots of cultural baggage that can do the job 😁
It always feels like a bit of a cheat, but it works. I've promised myself that one day I'll re-write the tales with the added bits and try publishing them, but I'll have to find a speech-to-text app to help, the arthritis in my left hand means that most longer posts at present involve copious amounts of Voltarol gel or ibuprofen.
@zakludick and I have made it part of our love routine! Did not see that one coming. "Hey baby, wanna rub some ibuprophen on my knees?" hahahahahaha