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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!

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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!

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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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The fifteenth of fifty-two short stories completed! 

Continued writing D&D class stories. This week focused on the Bard class with a short story of 1,643 words that followed a busking bard after a rough night of earnings that found herself in a rough back alley fight. It was a fun piece to write with the challenge of including musical descriptions, something I haven’t done much in the past. I look forward to revising this story in the near future.

Onto the next story!

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The fourteenth of fifty-two short stories completed! 

Wrote another D&D class short story of 1,201 words. It follows a Ranger as they complete their hunt and have to deal with the unexpected consequences of slaying their prey. It was a fun romp and just as fun to write. I already have rough outlines for the three more stories for three more classes, and I’ll be turning those into first drafts here soon.

Onto the next story!