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The thirty-seventh of fifty-two short stories completed! 

This week I wrote another small piece of fiction that expanded on the backstory of my Pathfinder 2e druid, Bree. Last Sunday we had the first session of the adventure, and I found myself thinking of the weeks and days leading up to when Bree met her two new companions and why she’d agree to go on the job presented to them. Those wayward thoughts eventually coalesced into a mostly coherently structured story, so I wrote it as a 1169-word flash fiction.

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The thirty-sixth of fifty-two short stories completed! 

Inspired by the Fall of Molaesmyr world even of Exandria (Critical Role property), I wrote a 2,529-word short story about a dwarf witnessing the exodus of elves fleeing the Savalirwood. Wasn’t sure if my crotchety, elf racist dwarf protagonist would work, but it surprisingly didn’t turn out too bad, with him doing the right thing in the end. Overall, it was a pleasant story to write.

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The thirty-fifth of fifty-two short stories completed! 

This week I wrote a 1,519-word flash fiction fantasy piece that dramatized a bit of backstory for my new tabletop RPG character, Breemiphi, a druid gnome. I enjoyed writing this piece as it helped get me in the head of this RPG character, figuring out what makes her her, at least at a base level.

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The thirty-third of fifty-two short stories completed! 

Another piece of Starcraft fanfiction this week. This time it was an 861-word flash fiction written from the perspective of a Zerg larva, which was an interesting challenge and very fun to write.

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The thirty-third of fifty-two short stories completed! 

Continuing to write fanfiction–hey, it’s what is providing the inspiration, and I ain’t fightin’ it. This week’s piece was set in the Starcraft setting, and it was a small-scale story of 3,828 words about a hunter and alien that turns into her hunting companion/dog. It was a fun write, and I’m marking it as a story to go back and review for revision in the future.

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The thirty-second of fifty-two short stories completed! 

This was another week I struggled to brainstorm a complete story, but, also similar to last week, I did and it was with another piece of Star Trek fanfiction. This story came in at 2,370 words. I discovered the emotional story as I was writing it, but it is in a very, very rough shape and would require a good deal of revision to improve.

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The thirty-first of fifty-two short stories completed! 

I struggled this week to brainstorm a story with a full narrative (I usually use the Story Circle plot structure). I ended up giving up on brainstorming a full structure and instead sat down and wrote starting with a single plot idea and discovery-wrote the rest of the story. Surprisingly, it turned out better than expected. I discovered a good emotional story to go along with the plot story. It ended up being a 1,763-word short story set in the Star Trek franchise setting.

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The thirtieth of fifty-two short stories completed! 

As mentioned, Diablo 4 came out last week, and while it has continued to prove a distraction from writing–among other things–it has also proven a source of inspiration. It wrote a 1,084-word flash fiction piece set in Diablo’s horror fantasy world of Sanctuary. I enjoyed writing the story, and it turned out well enough I intend to revise it in the future and de-fanfiction it in order to make it viable for publication.

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The twenty-ninth of fifty-two short stories completed! 

Diablo 4 came out this week . . . so, yeah, not a lot of writing happened . . .

But I did manage to write a quick piece of flash fiction using the outline Mary Robinette Kowal described in her BYU lecture. It is a 328-word science fiction piece.

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The twenty-eighth of fifty-two short stories completed! 

This week I wrote a 1,424-word piece of flash fiction inspired by the Writer’s Digest prompt: “Write from the perspective of a guardian angel.” The story I wrote is about an AI monitoring and predicting weather events across North America and providing emergency response recommendations. This is the closest story I’ve written that could potentially fall into the Solarpunk subgenre.

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