{"id":152,"date":"2020-01-06T20:25:33","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T04:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/?p=152"},"modified":"2025-07-21T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T04:18:19","slug":"my-three-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/06\/my-three-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"My Three Short Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SpacePlane.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110\" srcset=\"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SpacePlane.jpg 851w, https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SpacePlane-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/SpacePlane-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have been involved with a small group of writers (about nine of us) for a little over a year now. Some are experienced, published authors, others are new writers like myself. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drewwagar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Author Drew Wagar<\/a> has been leading, directing and teaching us how to write and publish a book through this hands-on project. We designed a sci-fi timeline, back history, and star system in which each of us wrote one or more short stories. The stories are tied together by the overall timeline and presented chronologically in a single anthology novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most anthologies I have seen are a group of stories that are unrelated except maybe by a common theme or topic. This should be a fun to read since they are all independent stories but will tell an overall larger tale as a complete book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/glenntypewriter.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I was able to write one larger (10k word) story and two shorter stories, of a few thousand words each, for the project. It was a learning challenge and a lot of fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">My three stories are entitled: <br>\u2022 <em><strong>Off  Target<br>\u2022 Shattered Worlds<br>\u2022 Justified Accidents<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We are in the phase of final drafting, proofing, compiling, and creating cover art. The plan is to have it published as an e-book and print-on-demand paperback on Amazon in <strong><em>March of 2020!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/drewwagar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Drew<\/a> for teaching and leading us in this great project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been involved with a small group of writers (about nine of us) for a little over a year now. Some are experienced, published authors, others are new writers like myself. Author Drew Wagar has been leading, directing and teaching us how to write and publish a book through this hands-on project. We designed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/2020\/01\/06\/my-three-short-stories\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Three Short Stories&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cgi-3d-images","category-sci-fi","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glennfrank.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}