Random Story Idea Generator Sci-fi character name generator Solarpunk: we are golden, and our future is bright Sciency words: The Gaia principle Could life evolve inside a gas giant? Planet Profile: Salsola Creature concept: The Acid Dragon of Zeta Anchora 3 ...
December 15, 2024 Guest post by Bridget McNulty Tension is the secret sauce that ensures that “I’ll read just one more page before bed” feeling. Four ways to ensure your story has the right amount: 1. Create a conflict your characters care about Before you plan your story’s main con...
Not every short story idea is a good one. A good idea can make for a bad story, just like a mediocre idea can become a really good story. Rarely is a bad story idea going to become a great story, but it’s not impossible depending on the skills of the writer. Although there’s ...
This is areallyscary story. I hate it when this happens. At the Mountains of Madness. Lovecraftian romance comics. I’m also not very fond ofthis. The Onion, on a seasonal roll. Recipes from Aleister Crowley. I hate whenthishappens, too. ...
Use one of these prompts to craft a thriller and killer short story or beginning of a novel, if you can write it in time.
Parchment — written in JavaScript, supports Z-Machine story files.Mapping Tools Traditionally, IF maps are represented by boxes connected by lines, representing the various rooms and their directions connections. They are intended to represent movements in the adventure world locations, not a phy...
Sometimes a novel’s originality is less a matter of affirmation than an act of refusal. Refusal to go along with received ideas of how to tell a story or create verisimilitude or even how words signify. Sayingnoopens up new space, or at least points towards what has been neglected by co...
tensions equal to those of the men who have come together on its shores. Alongside the story of these grief-marred characters, the author offers those of the women of the town – and what luck to root for or mourn them: the mother whose ever-growing fires engulf us, her two flirtatious...
Arjun is also described in multiple places as being handsome. What about the rest of us? Considering that the theme of the book is that an arranged marriage can still work and possibly build a more solid love story than a spontaneous spark, the ending is quite disappointing. ...
this story is compelling. Farming was once what the majority of Americans did for a living, and while the numbers of farmers has declined steadily during the last hundred years, the industries that emerged in the industrial age to convert American agriculture from horse to engine driven agricultur...