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Friday Flash 4: Warrior of the North
You walk through a dark forest, down from the mountain. Snow swirls at your feet, obscuring the path ahead, erasing your footprints behind. No name, no home, a past forgotten and gone. Only your life to lose. You are nobody, another stranger from the north.
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Idea You Can Steal 93: Spiritual Healing
The weather’s starting to cool off, and all of the restaurants are serving pumpkin spice flavored specials. Yep. Fall is here again. Here’s a new story idea for your imagination to chew on.
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Idea You Can Steal 92 + Updates
I’ve spent most of the year building up my social media presence with my Odysee channel (now with mirrors on YouTube and Rumble). That’s why things haven’t been as active over here on the blog. But now I’ve created a big enough backlog that I can let these channels run more or less on autopilot…
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Idea You Can Steal 91: Jolly Cooperation
As long-time readers know, July is always a busy month for my family. This year is no exception. So here’s a story idea from my backlog that you can steal.
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Idea You Can Steal 90: A Kid and a Hobo
Summer is here! Here’s an Idea to Steal for the next time you need to get out of heat. (Or cold, if you’re in the southern hemisphere.)
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Idea You Can Steal 89: Those Left Behind
May has one more Friday for us, which means a bonus Idea You Can Steal for you. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to write a much longer intro. Family’s visiting the next two weeks, and I have plenty to prepare before they arrive. Hope your creativity enjoys the fresh dose of inspiration.
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Idea You Can Steal 88: A Dying Kingdom
The temperatures are steadily climbing, and the rain is coming harder and more often. Summer’s definitely on its way. Here’s a new story idea to keep you inspired through the changing seasons. A kingdom is slowly crumbling into ruin. Signs of this ruin are becoming readily perceptible. A sight, sound, or smell would expose the…
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Idea You Can Steal 87: The Empress’s Daughter
Forgive me if I don’t have the mental bandwidth to craft an eloquent introduction. March and early April were really stressful for my family — some big, sudden changes we had to adapt to. Everything’s settled now, yet I didn’t realize how exhausted I was until this week. In spite of all that, I have…
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Scripts, Theater, Fiction, and the Essence of Medium
Ms. Caldwell, are you seriously advising people to write scripts? Scripts are for movies. You’re not writing a movie. You’re writing a story.
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To the Capital [Stageplay]
SCENE 1: Night. Train ambiance. Silas sits on the bed stage left, his eyes closed. Kiki sits in front of the bedside table, restless. A lit lantern rests on the table. Blankets lie in a pile downstage right.
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Idea You Can Steal 86: To Build a Wall
There’s a lot going on in my personal life right now. Nothing terrible; just really busy. So forgive the short introduction. Here’s another story idea for your muse to chew on as you’re waiting for the rain to stop.