So, there I was happily laying out an anthology of short games. It wasn’t massively exciting, it was mainly just laying out page after page of other people’s work. When someone said “Why didn’t I have a Cypher System book?” The short answer was that there was already a Cypher System book called CHAOS, which ... Read more The post A funny thing happened on the way to the forum! first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

The storytelling collective ‘course’ is delivered as a series of letters. The last letter covered two ideas. The first is about the spectrum of options between planning your story in great details at one end and writing by the seat of your pants at the other. Most of us will naturally be somewhere on that ... Read more The post Short Story September Update#2 first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

Maybe there is some irony here but I intended to write this update last week but I didn’t find the time to write anything. I have started the SSS course. The first suggestion is about working on your story every day, not necessarily writing but mulling things over and thinking about your story even if ... Read more The post Short Story September Update#1 first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

I have joined the Story Telling Collective’s Short Story September with a view to improve my writing. https://www.storytellingcollective.com/courses/short-story-september-2024 I have never done one of these before, so have no idea what to expect. Yes, it may well have been a good idea to do this kind of thing before I started writing my flash fiction, ... Read more The post Short Story September (2024) first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

This will come as no great shock, but writing fiction is not very easy. My original idea was to try and create 500-1000 words every couple of days. I have no shortage of ideas or storylines, but the demands of flash fiction, that the action takes place mostly in a single scene, and that scene ... Read more The post Flash Fiction Project Update#2 first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

Officer Magnus Upsall sat motionless on the rooftop, the neon haze of Lerrick reflecting off his visor. His heart pounded rhythmically in his chest, but his hands remained steady, clutching his ancient but custom-modified HK G36. Below, the sprawling maze of Lerrick’s harborside buzzed with life, awash in a sea of electric blue and crimson ... Read more The post ⚡Flash Fiction Nemo Me Impune Lacessit first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

Kal sat down in the public gallery overlooking the sheriff’s court. The ballistic glass between the the gallery and the court below showed the scars left by the outraged and the despondent few who have watched proceedings from here over the years. Below, the nearly empty court paid witness to the divorce proceedings of Haldane ... Read more The post Flash Fiction ‘Til Death Do Us Part first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

If you have seen my diary entries about how DriveThruRPG is fading as a storefront and how I wanted to experiment with DriveThruFiction, this post follows on from those. A quick resume: The new DriveThruRPG website has been optimized for the biggest publishers. It makes discovery extremely difficult for smaller indie publishers, which has hit ... Read more The post Flash Fiction Project first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

DriveThruFiction [DTF] is OneBookShelf/Roll20’s fiction ebook site. It is identical in almost every way to DriveThruRPG except for the books on sale, and it has a purple or is that lilac color scheme. At the moment, there is no sign of PHNX, which is a good thing. I assume that once they are satisfied with ... Read more The post Designer Diary: DriveThruFiction Experiment first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more

You may well have missed my literary translation debut! Last week I am kind of went down a rabbit hole while thinking about Grammarly. What I did was take a text and then let Grammarly loose on it and agreed to everything. Once I completed one pass, I went back and did it again, and ... Read more The post Literary Translation Challenge first appeared on Solo Roleplaying & Game Mastery ..read more