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neither alive nor dead but a secret third thing (at sea)

Innovative alternate places to go on dungeon crawls in

Overly Dangerous Circus

Law firm

A big goddamn hole

Some guy’s house, he just wants you and the orcs to leave

An actual medieval dungeon with no traps or monsters.

THE PAIN TRAIN

The actual sun

A forest with animals for trees and trees for animals

Backstage at hit sitcom “It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia” during filming

A dungeon that someone’s already gone through to disarm the traps, kill the monsters and steal the treasure

The internet

Just like a really big ballpit, I’m sure if you jump in you’ll find treasure or monsters or something, I’m off for a nap.

 I painted The Swing by Joean Honore Fragonard as characters in one of my dungeons and dragons campaigns.

Hope you enjoy this!!

Quick painting of everyone’s favourite hunter-turned-npc, Harley Weaver! @dionynic

seven day writing challenge

in preparation for nanowrimo, here are seven fun writing prompts to think about your novel in a different way. you don’t need to do any of these in order, and it doesn’t matter if you have the entire plot already planned out or if you’re winging it—just have fun or maybe fake it until you make it! who knows what will happen?

1. BREAKING NEWS! write a news article about an event that will occur in your novel

2. a portrait of… write a poem or a prose poem about a character or a location in your novel

3. the communion of food. construct a recipe for a food that will be eaten in your novel, a food that has significance to your character, or a food that exists in your novel’s world

4. WANTED. write a snippet from a piece of environmental or source material that your character will encounter but may not read in your novel. think about the way video games use environmental story telling. it could be a wanted poster, a post-it note, a journal entry, warning label—anything!

5. a letter to myself. write a letter from your character’s point of view to their younger or older self. what are their regrets or hopes? what do they wish they had known?

6. the butterfly effect. change one plot point in your upcoming novel. write a short story illustrating the effects of that change, whether they occur immediately or weeks to years after

7. book report. who cares if you don’t know what’ll happen? make something up! pretend you’re a third grader writing a book report over your novel. it can be simple or whimsical or as detailed as you want! it’ll help you to think about the outline (or lack of) of your novel if you’re attempting to look at it objectively

happy writing! but most of all, have fun writing! don’t take this too seriously. writing’s supposed to be fun. you can go back and make it “professional” later. if you have any questions, our ask box is always open!