We writers can be in such a rush–to get this project finished; to submit; to hit the best-seller list; to make our fortune—that it’s easy to get discouraged. It can feel like we’re not making progress if the writing is slow, or ‘successes’ don’t come often. But writing isn’t just one thing. And none of …
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Oh goodness, I had quite a time trying to figure out how to work this prompt into my short. I had decided that I would link all of my May stories around a central cast of characters, and it seemed like my two MC’s would be role-playing during a D&D-esque campaign, but it turned into another type of story within a story because I quickly went down the rabbit hole of creating a gaming system instead of furthering the plot. So now one of my MC’s is attending a new writing seminar, and her bestie is her beta. The writer has a penchant for incorporating her friends into her tales, to the chagrin of her close readers, and so I think this sci-fi side romp will now be a recurring detour. They might still end up playing that campaign one day, though.
I love this!!