Day Five of my ten-minute short story challenge!
Ten-Minute Story Exercise (Wednesday)
Day Three of my ten-minute short story challenge! Read Monday’s entry here and Tuesday’s entry here. I interpreted the character to be a shepherd on a moon, the setting to be that from another story I’d written involving moon sheep, and the situation to be that the shadow of the planet to contain monsters and […]
Ten-Minute Story Exercise (Tuesday)
Day Two of my ten-minute short story challenge! Read Monday’s entry here. I interpreted the character to be a man who’d walked around the world, the setting to be a world carried along by bees, and the situation to be a star waking up. I got closer to a complete story than yesterday! There was […]
Ten-Minute Story Exercise (Monday)
To warm up for NaNoWriMo 2023 next Wednesday, I’m writing as complete a short story as I can manage each day this week—in no more than ten minutes each.
The Keenest Edge—Mock Fantasy First Chapter
Earlier this year, I attended a fiction writing conference focused on revision. We were divided into small groups and encouraged to submit the first chapter of our WIPs for group feedback. Since I had no WIP, I wrote this as the first chapter of a fantasy book I have no intention of continuing.