To push myself to improve my writing, I joined a competition to write a 1000 word short story for the Local Coffee Shop writer’s group. Despite my self-doubts, I was able to brainstorm something that could go with the prompt: “agency without freedom OR freedom without agency.” The competition was loose with formatting and genre rules but I pushed myself to depend on the words to show the visuals and characterization instead of half-assing my scripts to draw later.

There’s clear stuff I see wrong and I’m resisting the urge to go back to revise it and let it go to writeI recently participated in a writing competion with my a better new story. You can read the story below or listen to the narration by Edyrem on of the voice actors on the server. You can even download a PDF to read yourself.