Well, I made it to the final round. If you’re not in the know, the final round of NYC Midnight challenges you to come up with a story in under 1,250 words given the prompts below, all in under 24 hours. Here’s what I came up with! Genre: Open (I came up with a comedy/drama)Subject: […]
Group 7 Genre: Ghost story Subject: Fundraising event Character: A chaperone I had 48 hours to write this story given the prompts above, and it all had to be under 1500 words. Please see my round two and round one stories where I placed third and first in my groups respectively. Thanks for reading! Synopsis […]
If you didn’t know, I placed first in my heat for my Round One story, Port of Last Call, a swashbuckling tale of pirates and curses. This time, I was assigned the prompts below, and I had to submit it within 72 hours, and make it in under a cool 2k words. Below is what […]
Last year, I registered as I’ve done since 2019 for the NYC Midnight Short Story Competition, but when time came to write my prompts, I was bogged down with three separate contracts for work. At my most creatively drained, I decided to forego taking part, and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t break […]
I read 46 books this year! That’s eleven more than last year. Slowly, I’m creeping back up toward my acceptable average of 50 per year. And what a year it’s been! I read a ton of good books this year. I’ve catalogued a few thoughts about them here, really for myself more than any sort […]
Here was another Destiny 2 writing challenge from our Project Exodus Discord run by someone other than me! Here were the summer-themed prompts put forward by the very talented HiseuminGo: Vacation Skydive Roast Match Fireworks Tropical Pool Challengers could veto two prompts to meet the goal of five and get their prize. Or, if they […]
This challenge was the first one run by someone other than me! We have new mods due to server growth, and these were the prompts put forth by our dear Snips, themed for pride month: Rainbow Camp Identity Preference March Transition Pride Challengers could veto two prompts to meet the goal of five and get […]
The second writing challenge from Project Exodus happened to fall in the middle of the Guardian Games event within the game. Despite the server’s overall middling feelings for the event, I decided I could cook up some interesting prompts to work with the theme of the Guardian Games. They ended up being: Rivalry Prize Ceremony […]
For the past year, I’ve been joining Discord communities during Covid times for… obvious reasons of supplemental socialization. Of these communities, I’ve had the most fun and success in writing and RP servers, and now have one of my own that I like to call home. As an admin, I’ve been organizing writing challenges, and […]
r/DestinyJournals AO3 “Look, you know I’m game for anything you want to do. But I think people expected you to get back to your old projects. This new thing of yours—” “—Of Didi’s.” “It feels like it’s taking over your life, Marcus.” “Didi’s life.” “Fine,” Bast snaps. If this is what it takes to get […]
Writing My Way Out 