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One Spark, Many Fires: Get the most out of the prompt Grab this free writing resource here. For a little while now, I've been experimenting with how to get the most out of writing prompts. If you're anything like me, you love writing prompts, and you probably follow dozens of writing prompt profiles on social media. Earlier this year, I shared a workbook called Write a story that... which aimed at sort of gamifying the writing prompt process by providing you with a range of different elements that you could randomly put together to create a prompt. The idea was that with 660 prompts, you could generate thousands of unique prompt combinations and never run out! Well, way before Write a story that... , I was working on another kind of writing prompt workbook that featured another kind of approach. Today, I'm finally sharing it with you! It's called One Spark, Many Fires, and the whole idea behind it is to teach writers to look at one prompt and find a range of different

Ventures into Game Design Game design and development has been a bit of a hobby of mine for some years now, but I've only ever made and completed one small game, and that was as a birthday gift for someone close. To be fair, my programming skills are limited, but to be equally fair, I enjoy the design aspects of game development much more than the programming aspects, so I don't see it being a big weakness.  Over the past few months , I've quite enjoyed focusing my efforts more on game design. I've been trying to merge it with my passion for teaching and education, as well as instructional design, so I've been designing a game where the game objectives directly correlate with learning objectives, and while it's been a challenge, it's coming along nicely.  To help me out with this, I've been working on my pixel art as well. I'm working on creating the game as an RPG adventure in the style of previous Legend of Zelda games, but the design has been tric

July 2024 Fiction Writing Prompts A homemaker is going about their day when a loud explosion nearby shatters their peace. Swept away at sea on a beach outing with nothing but a bottle of water and an inflated raft, a character must find their way to land. Summer holiday with her friends was meant to be fun, not horrifying! While at summer camp, a lonely child makes friends with an equally lonely ghost. One normal day, the sun takes on a permanent purple hue. An intelligent parasite skitters through the streets, looking for an open window and an unwitting host to control...  After a near-death incident in the ocean, a character finds out that they can, in fact, breathe underwater. A beloved dog popular on social media is kidnapped for ransom. An astronaut finds a portal that takes them to another galaxy... eerily similar to ours.  

90 Days Later June 2024 Writing Update? ⌛ It's been about 90 days since I last wrote.  Well - that's a half-truth. I haven't considered myself a writer for about 90 days now, mainly because I wanted to explore other avenues and see who I was without the whole author part of my identity taking up all the space.  ... That's a half-truth, too. That was maybe only half of the reason. But have you ever felt like that? Like you've been defining yourself by this one thing for so long, and you start to wonder if maybe there's something else you could do? For me this feeling was magnified ninety days ago, when my soul was drenched with the news of infuriatingly horrible atrocities. To be fair, it's been several months since the news has been neck-deep in the evils of humanity, but about 90 days ago I hit my limit. Buildings burning, bodies burning, souls burning... It's hard to feel like what you're doing is worth a damn when the world is on fire.  Can you r