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.
Onto the next story!
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.
Onto the next story!
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.
Onto the next story!
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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The twenty-seventh of fifty-two short stories completed!
Back to prose this week with a 1900-word piece of cozy science fiction. Very much influenced by my binge of the Wayfarer series by Becky Chambers. I had a good time writing this piece and I very much look forward to revisiting it for revision.
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The twenty-sixth of fifty-two short stories completed!
Halfway there!
Having been a little burned out on writing prose, I decided to change things up this week by writing a . . . comic script! It’s a short, three-page script coming in at 631 words set in the Star Trek Lower Deck setting. I had a fun time researching how to write a comic script and a format to use, writing for a visual medium as opposed to a written medium was a nice change of pace, and writing a more humorous piece is not something I have done much of so it made the experience feel fresh. I might continue exploring comic scripts in the weeks to come.
Onto the next story!
The twenty-fifth of fifty-two short stories completed!
I finally finished drafting a 4,615-word science fiction short story I began a few weeks back. It didn’t end up having all the scenes I expected, but overall the story played out as I wanted. I intend to revisit this story in the future. Drafting stories has become a struggle in the last month, especially for stories beyond two scenes. Flash fiction has been easier, so I’ll probably be focusing on writing that until drafting stops feeling like homework.
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The twenty-fourth of fifty-two short stories completed!
Back to science fiction this week with a 306-word flash fiction created from the following writing prompt: “Write a story inspired by a favorite song.” Source. I chose Space Oddity by David Bowie. It ended up being, much like the song itself, a piece composed purely of dialogue, which was a new experience and an interesting challenge for me. It was a fun story to write and I look forward to revising it sometime later this year.
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The twenty-third of fifty-two short stories completed!
This was another week I wrote an epilogue story for my recently finished D&D campaign I DMed. It dramatizes the final battle that two NPCs the players had many interactions with–Hlin and Trovus–and shows the leadup to a battle with a metal-forged dragon and how the two defeated the dragon by sacrificing themselves. I’m overall happy with how the first draft, which ended up being 1,675 words, came out.
Onto the next story!
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