Mu. My entry was originally intended to be worthwhile in-and-of-itself—and was based on an idea I’d had long before the challenge—but I realized halfway through writing it that the central conceit didn’t work the way I wanted. This would usually be the point where I either scrapped it or radically reworked it . . . but I’m fanatically pro-challenges-and-contests-on-LW and wanted to get something in before the deadline, so I forced myself to finish and then just hit submit without an editing pass.
Mu. My entry was originally intended to be worthwhile in-and-of-itself—and was based on an idea I’d had long before the challenge—but I realized halfway through writing it that the central conceit didn’t work the way I wanted. This would usually be the point where I either scrapped it or radically reworked it . . . but I’m fanatically pro-challenges-and-contests-on-LW and wanted to get something in before the deadline, so I forced myself to finish and then just hit submit without an editing pass.