Story: 365 Shorts #4

A little late with this week’s story update. After two hours of exercise followed by a few hours of socializing at a luncheon, I was too exhausted to do much yesterday. I blame the socializing, mostly. I always need quite a bit of recharge time after parties.

Anyway, this is the fourth story I wrote for my “365 Days of Shorts” project. It was originally a bit longer in the middle, but I cut out a few paragraphs that didn’t seem to add anything to the story. It actually feels like I took out more than I did, because of how much more I like it now.

Length: 793 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#46. It was coming from her leg.

Story: 365 Shorts #1

The first story I wrote for my “365 Days of Shorts” project. I’ve always loved reading and watching things about cryptozoology and I’ve felt a kind of possessive pride for this particular cryptid ever since I first saw cartoon images of it as a child attending the Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC. I might do more with these characters later; I haven’t decided yet.

Length: 894 words
Prompt: Pick a novel and take the first line off of every page to use as a prompt.
Novel used: The Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow by Fuyumi Ono.
#53. “Are you gone?!”

July Camp Project 2 and Lazy World Building

So far my July Camp projects are not going as well as I hoped, but I refuse to give up. There’s still more than half the month left for me to get this NaNo party started for realsies and I know that I’m capable of busting out word count like crazy in the time left. I’m feeling a bit better about it now that I actually updated my word count (thank goodness for being able to edit the count by day!).

This week I’ve been thinking about Project 2, the editing project, which I’m continuing to drag my feet on. Part of that is due to the fact that when I open that Scrivener project it reminds me of how much has to change.

Story: Catching Fireflies

I’ve been noticing a lot more fireflies out and about this summer than I remember there being last summer. I’ve always found watching them to be soothing, so I wanted to do a little thing as a tribute to them. (As a side note, I apparently have two songs on my mp3 player titled “Fireflies”. I listened to them both on repeat while writing this.)

I’m using the main couple from my webserial again. I tried to include enough backstory and species information as necessary for anyone who hasn’t read the serial. For more detailed information, feel free to check the World page of the webserial and the pages linked from it. Last week’s story was pre-serial and this one’s about a thousand years post-serial. It also includes Risa and Zane’s future daughter. I guess that’s kind of a spoiler, but nothing that should ruin the serial for anyone.

Length: 1,436 words
Characters: Risa, Zane, Ridley
Prompt: Fireflies.