By Adeline Piercy and Mack Dechaine In the final piece of our Dungeons & Dragons series, you can take the character you built in last week's post and give them a compelling backstory that is memorable and provides a great foundation to write a fantastic story. While these resources focus on D&D characters and the … Continue reading Weekend Writing Prompts: A CHARACTER FOR YOUR NEW WORLD

By Adeline Piercy & Mack Dechaine In the final part of the Dungeons & Dragons series, we will be looking at D&D resources for building characters. Building characters with these tools can be a great way to make sure that your characters are distinct from each other and can also help with writer's block when … Continue reading Using Dungeons & Dragons for World-building: Characters

By Adeline Piercy & Mack Dechaine In theme with the Dungeons & Dragons series, this week's prompts provides you with resources to bust through writers block and create a new world using charts and resources designed for worldbuilding in D&D! If you haven't read the previous posts on building maps and a world, you can … Continue reading Weekend Writing Prompts: MAKING A WORLD

By Adeline K. Piercy As described in my last post, Dungeons & Dragons was a key tool that I used to build my fantasy world and develop my plot. I volunteered to run a home-brew game for my friends and in exchange got to see them interact with the world I built. I learned a … Continue reading Using Dungeons & Dragons for World-building: The World Itself

Inspired by suggestions on our Discord channel, this week's prompts explore moments from a variety of real life experiences. Feel free to interpret the prompts however you like and make them suit your story and your style! All of the prompts for this week can be explored through poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction. Write the … Continue reading Weekend Writing Prompts: In Real Life

By Adeline K. Piercy In a desperate attempt to figure out what the world in my fantasy novel looked like, I volunteered to run a home-brew Dungeons & Dragons campaign for my friends. I turned my world into the context of our game and it challenged me to really develop the world. I had to … Continue reading Using Dungeons & Dragons Resources for World-building: Maps

Dreams can be strange, exciting, and surreal. Many writers pull inspiration from their dreams, and many stories include dreams in their plot! For some interesting starting ideas, check out this post from Bored Panda before you try out some ideas with the following prompts. As always, happy writing! Poetry: Write about the day after a … Continue reading Weekend Writing Prompts: DREAMS

We’ve all been there, one minute you’re furiously writing away and then suddenly…nothing. Try as you might; you can’t get any more words onto the page. When this happens to me, I feel like I hit a brick wall. I’m not sure why, but whenever I get writer’s block, I visualize one specific red brick … Continue reading Overcoming Writer’s Block

Apocalyptic fiction has been around since the origins of mythology. Modern recognizable stories started in the early 19th century and became mainstream after WWII since nuclear weapons brought global annihilation to public consciousness. A quick google reveals that the apocalypse genre can include all sorts of sub-genres and causes of mass destruction, such as a … Continue reading Weekend Writing Prompts: ALIEN APOCALYPSE

Dialogue may be one of the hardest things for a writer to perfect. When it comes to showing instead of telling, Andrzej Sapkowski is a master. In his books, dialogue is the primary source of storytelling--you can go pages without exposition, but the reader always knows exactly what's happening around the conversation. The characters have … Continue reading Dialogue Case Study: “Season of Storms,” from The Witcher Series