Status Update - Week 18 2026

Overview ongoing writing projects weekly flash story GREAT has been edited and is done (for now) read GREAT at an Open Mic event in Guelph short story Corporeal Acquisitions is first draft complete weekly flash story Maeve Murray's is nearing first draft complete new weekly flash story has been started and is in the exploratory phase for concept new blog post last week Collect > Outline > Draft social links have been cleaned up and expanded GREAT I sent this piece out to several readers and received solid feedback on it. I also read the story (~1,700 words, so not really flash fiction) at an Open Mic event for writers in Guelph, Ontario. At a high level, I enjoyed the event. I am out of practice in front of an audience and will need to work on that. I also had some interesting conversations and got to hear a variety of narrative voices. I’ll have some more specific thoughts on the event in another post. ...

May 3, 2026 · 4 min · 649 words · David Bragg

Status Update - 2026 Week 17

Overview ongoing writing projects weekly flash fiction These Are Not My Memories added to Patreon weekly flash fiction GREAT is draft complete and out to readers for feedback short story Corporeal Acquisitions being written, currently in first draft new weekly flash fiction started and in the exploratory phase set up blog at exsilium.heavyliftingindustries.com new accounts set up on Patreon and GoodReads These Are Not My Memories New flash fiction piece posted to Patreon. It’s free to read and includes an epub download option for paid Patreon members. ...

April 27, 2026 · 4 min · 642 words · David Bragg

Status Update - 2026 Week 16

Overview resumed work on short story Corporeal Acquisitions started and completed flash fiction piece These Are Not My Memories started flash fiction adaptation of short film script GREAT completed two new blog posts installed and started using taskwarrior and timewarrior created template repository for new writing projects wrote xq tool for extracting questions from files Corporeal Acquisitions In 2023 I was looking for a writing outlet and considering revisiting prose. I started working on building out a cosmic horror short story at the time. I had put around a week’s worth of effort into figuring out what story I was telling and building some basic structure. ...

April 25, 2026 · 4 min · 813 words · David Bragg