My worst nightmare came true!!! (1 Viewer)

im-estelle

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flying thru the ext english exam paper. creative writing section i own it up with a series of letters. series of letters? WTF!!! with less than 10 minutes to go i realize it says SHORT STORY!!!!!!!! so i did a 2.5 page quality short story...yeh im so screwed! wat do u think the max mark i could hope to achieve with a 2.5 page short story?
 

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i highly doubt it but does a series of letters count as a short story?
 

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It you added some opening at the begining like :

So I sat watching the dwindling moon, then decided to open the letter:

Dear Yager:

.............................

I turned, decided to search for that other letter

Dear: hot and sexy

XOXOXOXOXOXOX

I crunched the paper, and threw it in the bin, another day tomarrow.
 

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lots of my friends did series of letters - i think that would be ok? i mean, there are entire fiction books which are fictional letters between characters, and that's still a story.

i'm not sure.. and another friend did the same as you, did one long letter then realised it staid short story and so added in a paragraph at the end being like "he put down the pen blahblahblah wrap up"

did u hand in ur letters at all?
 

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Oh my! Mine was originally a series of letters also. When i saw short story, i just changed it so that the persona had two voices, his own and his dead fathers (who originally had a letter.) But I hope you kept the other letter one. Hopefully they would be able to look at it, you never know, letters may just count as stories in their opinion...
 

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I've heard of a few people who wrote really small amounts and still aced it. don't think it asked for an extended creative piece, just original. just being an optimist here
 

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i kept both. i had a short story of 2.5 pages which i did in the last 9 mins. and i had my series of letters which was around 5 pages or 6. i kept both and handed both up in case...sigh llucky its just 1 unit and im pretty sure i killed my other assessments :(
 

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