text: After a brief hiatus, we’re back for more spotlights from our recently concluded cycle of Serial Saturday! Now all that’s left to do is prepare for the upcoming season and spotlight our fantastic authors. With weekly programs like Serial Saturday we have a great opportunity to get to know writers in our community and follow their progress in such a clear and exciting way. That is definitely the case with /u/ChineseArtist \-- After joining us at /r/WritingPrompts 6 months ago, he dove right into SerSat in a big way, with a story that features characters inspired by other writers in our Discord chat. What began as a fun meta story of a group of teenagers being given a quest by an all-knowing flaming dumpster quickly became so much more. Not only did we get a kick out of reading a story featuring a version of us writers in the chat, we got to see the evolution of this story from a dialogue heavy opening to a balanced, fleshed out story with depth and substance. Here at we had a blast getting to know the cast from **Of Dice and Friends**. But don't take my word for it! Here's a small teaser from /u/ChineseArtist: >An elf, a dragonborn, a human, and a stereotypical Californian surfer dude walk into a bar. > >*Al, please. We need a real synopsis, no time to be messing around. And careful with that fire, or the dumpster’s not the only thing that’ll be burning soon!* > >Ugh. Fine. You’re no fun. > >Four unlikely allies must band together when they are forced to save the world. Will they be able to work together and help good triumph, or will they bicker and argue until it’s too late? Spoiler alert: it’s the second one! > >*Al!* > >I mean - you’re gonna have to read it for yourself to find out! For our first run of Serial Saturday at it was important for us to get author impressions of how their experience went with us, and give readers a peek at the "behind the scenes" of creating a flash fiction serial. Here's ChineseArtist’s take on that: >Coming into Serial Saturday, I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect. I’d been writing in the r/writingprompts community for some time, but everything up to that point was stand-alone and meant to be read without any context. Creating something like this from scratch, making a world where I actually had to care about the things that happened with each chapter, that was something new to me. > >I definitely think that I’ve improved greatly over the course of these sixteen chapters, with everything from dialogue and pacing to action and comedy. The writers here are an amazing group and with them it’s always just this great community of feedback and growth that’s hard to find anywhere else. > >Oh, and of course, I’ll be continuing on with Serial Saturday next year, as this story is far from over ;). With *Of Dice and Friends* at an end (for now) there is only one thing left to do: show off this newly finished arc for obligatory bragging rights here on . Let the bragging begin! Without further ado, here's /u/ChineseArtist’s Table of Contents. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Table of Contents: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ You can check out more of /u/ChineseArtist's work by going to his subreddit, r/ChineseArtist. Congrats on finishing your serial, ChineseArtist, and we can’t wait to see what you do next. <3 from the team at , , and Serial Saturday. \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ *For more information on the Serial Saturday program feel free to check out our* *.* We have members from all around the world and who have all kinds of schedules, so there’s usually someone awake to talk to. We also have scheduled readings, oration critiques, spur-of-the-moment story time, or even just random hangouts over voice chat.