The winners of the TUFFest Ride at the Carrot Ranch are announced. Congratulations winners and congratulations to all riders (writers)!
After one of the most challenging rounds of judging 118 entries from 36 writers over five 24-hour free-writes with five different prompts, three judges selected five writers to take the TUFFest Ride.
TUFF stands for The Ultimate Flash Fiction. As a literary form, it requires a writer to master spontaneous drafting, reduction, and expansion for a single story. As a writing tool, it guides a writer through revision to get to the heart of a story or the point of an idea. The TUFFest Ride is a writing contest that invites a small group of writers to exhibit their skills to master the process publicly.
The first task of TUFF is to free-write. That means to draft a story from scratch. It’s a demonstration of creative instinct, pushing into the unknown to retrieve a possible story. To help spark an idea, writers followed the lead of a prompt: mudslide.
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Norah Colvin 
What a ride! Thanks for sharing!
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My pleasure! It’s the least I can do.
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Congratulations to all winners!
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Thanks, Barbara. They are well deserving of your congratulations.
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Congrats to all the winners!
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Thanks, Jacqui. They definitely deserve it.
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This has been an exciting ride, Norah!
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I think so too, Miriam. Thanks for riding along. 🙂
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You’re welcome, Norah. I wish to have been there all the time. 🙂
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We all ride when we can! 🙂
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That’s right, Norah! I have to adjusting my priority constantly. 🙂
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