{"id":101058,"date":"2026-08-07T12:33:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/?post_type=jetpack-portfolio&#038;p=101058"},"modified":"2026-08-07T12:34:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:34:43","slug":"small-miracles","status":"publish","type":"jetpack-portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/portfolio\/small-miracles\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SmallMiraclesCover-642x1024.png\" alt=\"This is a book cover. A stick figure drawing of the Trap Finders, an adventuring company. The drawing is all line art, in black and white, with the exception of a single pink 20-sided die. To the right is a tall cliff with a stick figure wearing a cap and with a small beard, looking panicked. Below him, a female stick figure with a bow is dangling from a rope that has caught on a branch jutting out from the cliff wall. She is attempting to shoot the rope with an arrow. Below her, another stick figure is running away from the pink d20, which is rolling out menacingly from a cave entrance at the base of the cliff. A small rat preceeds the figure, which doesn't have a specific gender, but represents a male character. To the left, a figure with long braids is falling into a hole in the ground. Her arms are raised in alarm, and the braids are flying upward. This figure represents Lyr. At the top of the image is the name of the book and author: &quot;Small Miracles. A Novel of the Trap Finders. By Stephanie Cottrell Bryant.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-101054\" style=\"width:221px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SmallMiraclesCover-642x1024.png 642w, https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SmallMiraclesCover-188x300.png 188w, https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SmallMiraclesCover-768x1225.png 768w, https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SmallMiraclesCover-963x1536.png 963w, https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SmallMiraclesCover-1284x2048.png 1284w, https:\/\/www.mortaine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/SmallMiraclesCover.png 1592w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Badly drawn stick figures&#8211; that&#8217;s how you know it&#8217;s not AI!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/184448\/small-miracles\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.royalroad.com\/fiction\/184448\/small-miracles\">Read Small Miracles on Royal Road for free here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in 2010, I wrote a \u201cGameLit\u201d novel for NaNoWriMo, the month-long write-a-thon in November. It was based on my D&amp;D 4e group, and featured the adventures of Lyr, my elf cleric of Silvanus as she shifted from following one god to another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s actually not terrible, and I had copies printed for all of the players in my group on Lulu. And promptly forgot about it. There wasn\u2019t really a market for GameLit at the time\u2013 if you\u2019ve followed my blog, you\u2019ve seen my game writeups that blend the narrative with game mechanics. Little did I know that I was writing GameLit, a genre that has developed over the last 15-20 years, along with the very popular LitRPG genre. I didn\u2019t even know about An Archive of Our Own until a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are twelve chapters and an appendix, unless I pull some of the other adventure ficlets I wrote for this character and add them in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read Small Miracles on Royal Road for free here! Back in 2010, I wrote a \u201cGameLit\u201d novel for NaNoWriMo, the month-long write-a-thon in November. It was based on my D&amp;D 4e group, and featured the adventures of Lyr, my elf cleric of Silvanus as she shifted from following one god to another. 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