I am attempting to write 50,000 words of fiction in the month of November 2020, most likely in the form of 30 short stories averaging 1,667 words or more. I have done this once before.

These are first drafts, written at lightning speed, with no editing whatsoever. You're going to see plenty of really obvious errors and things which need fixing or rewriting. I see them too! The objective here is to force myself to get some vaguely original ideas out on paper. In December onwards, we'll see whether any of this is worth refining into a finished work.

Today in 30 More First Drafts...

• Kill While One
• The Swan With No Name
• Non-Contact
• Lena
• King Of The Fountain
• Optimæ
• Hepht
• It's Simple. We Steal The Statue Of Liberty
• A Robot Must Conceal Its Own Existence As Long As Such Concealment Does Not Conflict With The First Or Second Law
• Project Rubidium Rubidium Rubidium
• The Death Of Batman
• The Only Good Billionaire
• 28 Millennia Later
• A Powerful Culture
• Circuitous Genetic Takedown Annotations
• The Frame-By-Frame
• The Hypothesis Hypothesis
• Wavefront
• Not If You Were The Last One In The Universe
• The Knowledge Cosmic
• Business Model
• Elevate
• You Guys Want To See Something Cool
• Crows Crows Crows
• Terminally Online
• Opinions From 10⁵⁰⁰ CE
• The Cycle
• CryptoMatter
• Urbane In Urbana
• Where He Belongs

Aftermath

I think this was a fairly productive month! Some of these first drafts turned out much better than others. Here are my subjective top picks, all single-chapter short stories:

• Lena
• Business Model
• The Frame-By-Frame
• 28 Millennia Later
• The Swan With No Name

What happens next?

As foreshadowed, I gave The Knowledge Cosmic a very light edit posted it to AO3.

The first draft Lena became a completed short story, also named Lena.

As for everything else... wait and see...