Six New Stories Completed Since The Start Of July

I have been enjoying a (for me) unique writing spree since the start of July, with drafts finished for six new swords and sorcery tales:

5th July - "From the Ashes" - 6,800 words

9th July - "Masks of Deception" - 7,000 words

13th July - "Trapped in the Dreamlands" - 6,600 words

26th July - "Escaping the Dreamlands" - 15,200 words

28th July - "The Narcolopsia" - 4,500 words

4th August - "The Dark Sacrifices" - 11,800 words 

51,900 words in total.

Four concern my hero Welgar,  one is about Horbeck and another is about Ossani the Healer.

I am now two thousand words into a story about a companion of Horbeck, Asnar the Josanian. 

How long this spree will last I have no idea, other than it will certainly end by the start of October when I begin reading submissions for Swords & Sorceries: Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 11. From past experience this always puts a complete dampener on the own writing, which is unlikely to revive before I start reading submissions for Swords & Rockets: Tales of Futures Past in January. Still I have now 34 swords and sorcery, dark fantasy tales finished and another likely to be finished soon, which I am happy about as I only fairly recently began to concentrate on this genre.

New dark fantasy story finished: Masks of Deception

It maybe rubbish, but I have completed my third dark fantasy tale over the past couple of weeks, a 7000 word tale I am currently calling "Masks of Deception", featuring my recurring character Ossani the Healer, along with his apprentice Arrenya. New characters are a second apprentice and a barbarian thief called Crossan, who bears many superficial similarities with another character whose name begins with "C". How things develop with this "C" though is another matter...

Oh, and there's a sinister Agryptian sorcerer-priest called Hoshan Kha.

I must admit, whether the tale's good or bad, I enjoyed the ride.

 

Over the past couple of weeks I have also completed two other tales:

"From the Ashes" (a Welgar story) at 6700 words

"A Murder of Necromancers" (A Horbeck story) at 13600 words