The DM's Girlfriend

About a year and a half after I started playing in my group, I sat down to do a session write-up. It had been a small session–only 3 players compared to our usual 5–but it was a fun game. And it touched on my own character’s backstory, so I really wanted to write something from her perspective. 
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Our DM (my boyfriend) has always encouraged players to do the session write-ups. In the year and a half I’d played with the group, I’d only written one (despite being a writer by trade). And that one that I wrote–man, did I have anxiety about doing it. 

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Not only did I wait for almost a month post-session to write it, I also asked the DM’s permission to post it, afraid that the rest of the group would hate me for it. I had him read it and approve it, and even then, I still thought they’d hate me. 

They didn’t. 

​But I never wrote another one. Then I sat down one day, and suddenly, I wanted to write about the team’s adventures. And I wasn’t scared anymore. A year and half later, I no longer considered myself just the DM’s girlfriend. Now I was a member of a team. Part of a group of friends.  

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