How An Idea Became A Story

Story of my HeArt Pure Fiction writing challenge.

Photo by Angèle Kamp on Unsplash

I didn’t have to think hard about what story from the past year was my favorite. It’s a story I am rather proud of because it’s a story that made me branch out of my comfort zone and write in a genre I’ve never written in before.

I can still remember staring at the list of prompts, all of them so far out of my…