The nineteenth of fifty-two short stories completed!
After last week’s novelette, I wrote a shorter 2,276-word short story this week. It was a science fantasy Star Wars: The Old Republic fan fiction centered on a heated exchange between the Bounty Hunter player character and her NPC companion, Mako. Though the emotional moments need to be smoothed out to land more impactfully, overall, I am happy with how the draft turned out.
Onto the next story!
The eighteenth of fifty-two short stories completed!
I finished up the long short story (or short novelette depending on your perspective) I began drafting last week. It is a science fiction piece that came in at 9,854 words. Already, as I was writing, I identified a handful of things that can be improved, expanded upon, cut out, and modified in revision. I intend to let this piece sit for a good long while (6+ months) before returning to it. But I fully intend to return to it and revise it, an activity I am very much looking forward to doing.
Onto the next story!
The seventeenth of fifty-two short stories completed!
I was a bit all over the place this week: preparing for the final encounter of a 2+ year-long D&D campaign, revising an outline for a science fiction short story, and beginning to draft said story. However, the length of the story is going to be probably around 7,000 words, and I ran out of time this week to finish it (I’m around the 4,000-word mark and halfway through the narrative). So, that is going to be my story for next week. So what about this week?
This week I popped out a quick 681-word piece of flash fiction. It’s a science fiction story along the veins of the D&D class stories I’ve been doing, but this time for the Mass Effect franchise. It is a story about an Asair woman using her biotic powers to help save survivors of a crashed spaceship. It was a fun piece to write, and it turned out all right for coming up with it at the last minute and banging it out if forty-five minutes.
Onto the next story!
The sixteenth of fifty-two short stories completed!
Another D&D class flash fiction piece this week, coming in at 1,363 words. The good old Barbarian was the focus this time, and the story turned out . . . alright, I suppose. Not as hyped about it as some of the others I’ve written thus far. I’m feeling a lack of steam for the D&D stories afterward, so I think I’ll be taking a break from them and coming back to them later this week. Been getting that sci-fi itch again, so my plan is to get back to writing some sci-fi stories in the coming weeks.
Onto the next story!
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