Dec 8, 2023
When unexpectedly asked about their profession, a person accustomed to remaining unnoticed until needed debates about how to tell the truth—spectacularly, or mundanely.
Genre: Science Fantasy
Excerpt:
I noticed him seeming to
notice me, and I found that so unlikely that I almost frowned. I
was extremely skilled at remaining unnoticed. The Queen of the
Hollow Yellow Moon had once proclaimed that I had the power to turn
invisible. Of course, there’s no such thing. At least, I haven’t
come across any such thing in my work so far.
What’s the Writing Prompt that inspired the story?
“A
stranger asks what you do. How do you reply?”
Source: A Writer’s Year:
365 Creative Writing Prompts. Text by Emma Bastow. Copyright ©
2019 HarperCollins Publishers
Faster Fictioneer
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held my first free writing workshop over Zoom to teach my method of
writing short stories (an abbreviated version) on 11/8/2023. The
workshop is based on my course, called “Faster Fictioneer: A Doable
Method to Write a Short Story from Start to Finish in Five
Weeks.”
You can watch a replay of the workshop here: FASTER FICTIONEER
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CREDITS
Story: “The
Galactic Analyst” Copyright © 2020 by Nila L. Patel
Narration, Episode
Art, Editing, and Production: Nila L. Patel
Music:
“Trip-Hop
Lounge Abstract Background” by Digital
Emotions (Intro/Outro)
Music by JONATHAN SHAW*
“A Tale of Peace”
“Thoughts”
“Midnight Creeping”
“A Tale of Water”
Music by ANDREW SITKOV (MuzStation Game Music)*
“Stars Talk”
“Dark Side”
“Last Moments of Peace”
“Space Discoveries”
“Another World”
“A Long Way”
*These tracks were part of a music and sound effects bundles I purchased from Humble Bundle and sourced from GameDev Market.
Music by Jonathan Shaw and Andrew Sitkov licensed from GameDev Market
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Episode Art Description: Digital drawing. Central image with a top and bottom border to make the format square. Bottom left, black silhouettes of two people facing each other, seen from waist up. Behind them is a starry expanse. Above their heads are bright colored gases. At top right is a sphere, encircled by rings in symmetrical orbits. Watermark of “Storyfeather” at bottom right.