CM Simpson: Writer & Gamer

This month, I nearly didn't make it. I'd gotten sick, gotten distracted by changes in other things I was doing, gotten a little depressed because things weren't actually working, and was in a bit of an overall funk as I worked out how to change direction and get moving again. At the beginning of November I guesstimated I had around 20,000 words to go on it in the 100 or so pieces of flash I needed to write to finish the book...and then the forward and the author's notes on top of that. I just wanted to give it up...but I didn't. I got to work to see if I really could manage not to fail, this time, and still do a good job. This is the result: Great Publishing Challenge : Milestone 6 Book 6: Another 365 Days of Flash Fiction Due: November 20, 2022 Uploaded On: November 18, 2022 Due for Release On: November 18, 2022 Type: A collection of mixed-genre and cross-genre flash fiction of varying lengths between 6-1000 words Content Breakdown:   total pieces-365: Flash...

 It's been a long road to getting this one complete and ready to publish, but I'm in the last stages, now. 365 pieces of flash, one author forward and some author notes, later, and it's over 120,000 words long, and traveling the spectrum of science fiction to fantasy to a few variations in between. The piece I started the day formatting is this one: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alien Invasion (II)   Joseph wanted the world. He’d seen it from the liner as it docked at the orbital and fallen in love with it straight away. “How much?” he demanded from its representatives, but they’d shaken their heads. “Our home is not for sale,” they told him. “It is the only one we’ve got.” “But I want to own it,” Joseph protested, but they’d stood firm. “No.” And he’d thrown a fit, storming from the room like the spoilt brat he was—and then calling in the fleet. What he could not buy, he took. The planet’s inhabitants came for him in ...