Okay, things got a little out of control with Dragonslumber spanning two (okay, almost three) months, but we are now back to one short story a month. My October prompt word is 'Sword'. My husband gave me the word so I'd be doing my own version of Swordtember, a challenge where people draw themed swords. …
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Well, September has almost ended, so now we need to wake up Empress Maake. No, I didn't delay this post so long just to make a Green Day reference. Dragonslumber just kept getting bigger. 'Slumber' was the prompt for the August story, and when my husband and prompt-giver saw I had come up with a …
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So, my Monthly Writing Prompt Challenge Story for September is now 12 days late. The reason for that is because it has ended up being over 20,000 words on it's own, and since its the conclusion of last month's story, this is actually a full on novel I am working with here. It's taking a …
Even though I am once again very out of the loop regarding the Hugo Awards, I'm still happy I caught the livestream of the announcement. There have been a number of reasons why I haven't been involved, including that it has been an absolute clusterfuck in recent years. The 2023 Awards in China are the …
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Okay, things are different this month. The prompt was 'Slumber', but as I got into this story I realised that 'Dragonslumber' was a much better title, so for the first time in this challenge, I changed the title. Except the Slumber title did come back in a way. It came back because by the end …
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Got my first bingo on my 2026 Book Bingo Card.(Click here if you have no idea what I'm talking about) As always, I'm going to take some time to share my thoughts on these five stories. There are a few highs here, but also some mehs. Overall though, there is nothing I hated to read, …
I cannot believe I have written seven stories in seven months. I'm happy with that achievement, even though I'm still working out how I feel about story #7,Judgement. I also want to apologise for the story being late. I know there are quite a few people who do check up on the site at the …
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This year, I set myself the goal of writing twelve short stories in twelve months. Similar to what the band Toehider occasionally do with their XII in XII, making twelve EPs in a year (check out their music here). I did this because I wanted more short stories to live on this site, and I've …
We've made it to the midpoint of my 12 in 12 Monthly Writing Prompt Challenge, with Story #6, Collective. I have a lot of thoughts on how the project is going so far and what comes next, but that can be an entire post on its own. I will point out though that a common …
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The ballots of the three major SFF awards have been out for a while now, so it's time for one of my favourite yearly traditions: reading all the short stories that have been nominated for a Hugo, Nebula or Locus. Well, I say all, but I'm a bit cash strapped at the moment, so I …
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