500 Words

500 Words

Writing The Counter Narrative

Lee Schneider
Feb 16, 2021
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I had an idea and it turned out pretty well. It was to write fiction in a short series for the web, bits of roughly 500 words that would roll out over email.

I learned from others’ mistakes. Someone else before me tried this in an email series and it came off terribly. Their stories ended up published out of sequence. It was sad, but I couldn’t make any…

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