Your boy got first place in his group in the first round of the #NYCMidnight short story challenge! On to round 2!

It's deadline day! I'm halfway through the second draft so I'll be powering through to the end, take break, then it's editing time.

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A day before the deadline and it's time to edit our first draft. Started the day with a readthrough and...we've got a lot of work to do.

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3,400 words into what should be a 2,500-word story, but at least the action-adventure is actioning AND adventuring.

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First draft of my first story idea is done and it's...underwhelming 😅

Good thing I've got a backup idea. Work on that starts today. #ShortStoryChallenge2025

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you.

Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

It is *not* looking like the first draft will be getting done today 😅

We're 800 words into what needs to be a 2,500 word story and the internet is being far too distracting today. #ShortStoryChallenge2025

Started on my first idea this morning, going to try and have the first draft done tomorrow.

For these challenges, I like to pump out a few stories (usually three or so) before picking one to rewrite and refine.

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Action/Adventure, a soon-to-be-retiree, and self-discipline as a subject? #ShortStoryChallenge2025

The Bleakwood is a land of quarreling barons, roaming outlaws, and a cursed forest full of monsters.

In Fate's Conscripts, Wulf flees home after tragedy throws him at the mercy of a warlock and an army of renegades. Will the Bleakwood chew him up and spit him out?

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Saturday morning. That means it's time to check our prompts and see what we're working with. #ShortStoryChallenge2025

Howdy Blue Sky! I'm participating in the NYC Midnight #ShortStoryChallenge2025 and I'll be chronicling my work here! Stay tuned for updates.

A doctor’s letter to United Healthcare for denying nausea meds for a child on chemo

Happy Halloween to those who celebrate and happy Massive Candy Sale Eve to those who are just going through something right now.

Howdy! I'm Nick. I run a marketing micro-agency by day and right fiction by *earlier* day. I recently published my first book, Fate's Conscripts. I once thought I wanted to make a living writing fiction but I'm just happy writing books.

Thanks for having me!