I came across an NPR story contest they are naming Three Minute Fiction.  The contest is to submit a work of fiction that can be read in three minutes and can be no longer than six hundred words.  I came across it via a twitter post from a fellow WoW player, who also has a blog about writing and wow.

I submitted a story that I’d originally written for a very good friend of mine in WoW whose character, a orc warrior, has been like a big brother to my tauren hunter.  He expressed concerns about my character changing because she was suddenly interested in a boy.  I wrote the story to assure him that even when she’s old and gray with many children and grand children that she’ll still be the same person.

Obviously I can’t submit a story with World of Warcraft elements and claim it as my own so I edited it to remove any reference to WoW proprietary story elements.  What surprised me by doing such is that it reads a bit like a steampunk story.  Perhaps I can write Washue stories after all and simply create a steampunk world for her to live and thrive in.  The idea appeals to me a great deal and I just may continue in that vein of thought as I move forward with developing my writing.

Tags: contests, Fantasy, submissions, Writing