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Tiny Writing Tricks & Tips Sharing

A topic by 1pagedungeons created 2 days ago Views: 110 Replies: 1
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Love small TTRPG adventures!

The hardest thing in making them, imho, is keeping descriptions concise while still grabbing the GMs imagination.  I've been using small descriptive words / sentences, but am always second-guessing myself when I've trimmed too much fat. Short, descriptive, playable. That's the goal. Short description give a GM some wiggle room as well, though you can skew towards too much. One example:

"Loam: Beefy. Guards the mine. Falls asleep every night, to his shame."

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How do you keep your sentences short and sweet? Any special techniques?

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I think for me it's really about getting rid of my coping filler words. Every time I start adding a "maybe" or "possibly" and I JUST NEED TO COMMIT. Here's a cool article on it from a writing advice blog I like a lot:

https://mythcreants.com/blog/ninety-nine-words-to-seek-and-destroy/