Week 9

One of my big and weird goals is to have a story published in every SFF magazine out there. Buuut that’d be pretty hard to do if I have no fantasy stories in my arsenal. (Or at least classic fantasy, not my fallback urban fantasy subgenre.)

And so… A 4,000-word story that explores the logistics (and side effects) of being a magical being in a typical Dungeons&Dragons type of world.

Week 10

A quick fun flash story! This one was for a submission call for stories about unusual gadgets. I took that weird premise and ran with it, worldbuilding more and more… And so an 800-word story was born.

And then, since it was a remarkably long flight with very patchy wifi (4 hours from Bangkok to Manila, 15 hours from Manila to New York), I went ahead and wrote a second flash story! It’s for the “What Elegant Stars” anthology and in one of my favourite formats – an encyclopedic entry. The grand total is 906 words: short and sweet and fun.

Week 11

This week’s story will be about a futuristic library. (Very meta, eh.) Aiming for roughly 1,500-ish words.

Now that I’m starting the PCT at last, I may have to downgrade or pause this solo challenge of mine. Might still write bespoke flash stories for anthology calls, but I will no longer be going on story submission sprees, like the 329 I’d sent off in January and February.

Or maybe I’ll use all that exercise-induce bloodflow to the brain to come up with cool poems! (This 2,653-mile trail is much more conducive to reading poetry than longer works, in any case.)

We’ll see – or, as Quebecers say, “On sera.”