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On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, "A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems."
As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don't want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.
As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.
I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I'm going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can't even.
May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.
Sci-fi/Fantasy Writer PROMPTS, Activities and Exercises: Ideas to Spark Creativity and Fight Writer's Block! Try this out!
Character Creation & Development
1. Alien Species Bio – Create an entirely new alien species. Detail their appearance, culture, language, and planet of origin.
2. Fantasy Race Creation – Design a new fantasy race with unique traits, beliefs, and magic systems.
3. Character’s Dark Secret – Write about your character’s biggest secret and how it affects their choices in the story.
4. Intergalactic Job Interview – Write a scene where a character interviews for a job on another planet.
5. Hero or Villain? – Take a character and rewrite a scene where they’re the hero. Now, rewrite it with them as the villain.
6. Character’s Fatal Flaw – Choose a character and write about their fatal flaw—what could lead to their downfall?
7. Create a Fantasy Ancestry – Design a family tree for one of your fantasy characters, exploring their magical or royal lineage.
8. Magic System Blueprint – Create a unique magic system with rules, limitations, and societal consequences.
9. Inter-species Romance – Write a love story between two characters from different species or worlds. How do they overcome their differences?
10. Superpower Conflict – Give your character a superpower, then make them face a challenge where their power causes more harm than good.
World-Building & Setting
11. One Day in a Fantasy City – Write a day in the life of an ordinary person in your fantasy world.
12. Galactic Government – Design the political system for a galaxy-spanning empire. How does it manage different planets?
13. Map Maker – Draw a detailed map of your fantasy or sci-fi world, including key landmarks and unexplored areas.
14. Alien Landscape – Describe a bizarre alien planet’s landscape and its effect on the inhabitants.
15. Sky’s the Limit – Design a sky in a sci-fi or fantasy world. Is it green with floating islands? Does it have three suns?
16. Magic and Technology Clash – Write about a world where magic and advanced technology coexist but are constantly at odds.
17. Futuristic City Tour – Write a detailed tour of a futuristic city—describe the technology, architecture, and social dynamics.
18. Weather Control – Create a world where the weather is controlled by a powerful group or machine. What happens when it fails?
19. Invent a Holiday – Design a holiday in your fantasy or sci-fi world. What does it celebrate, and how is it observed?
20. Multiverse Portal – Write a scene where a character discovers a portal to a parallel universe. How is it different from their own?
Plot & Story Development
21. Time Travel Trouble – Write a scene where time travel goes wrong. How do the characters fix the timeline?
22. The Last Dragon – Write a story about the last dragon on a planet, and why it’s being hunted.
23. Space Heist – Plan and write a scene where a crew of space outlaws steals something from a heavily guarded space station.
24. Elemental War – Imagine a world where the elements (fire, water, air, earth) are at war. Write about how it affects daily life.
25. End of Magic – Write about a world where magic is slowly disappearing. How does society adapt?
26. Alien Invasion from Another Dimension – Write a short story about an alien invasion, but from a dimension parallel to ours.
27. Betrayal in Space – Write a scene where a crew member on a spaceship betrays the rest of the team. What are the consequences?
28. Space Pirate Crew – Create a band of space pirates and their spaceship. Write a day in their life aboard the ship.
29. The Artifact – Write about an ancient, magical artifact found in a sci-fi setting. How does it change technology?
30. Rogue AI – Create a scenario where an AI system gains consciousness and decides to rebel against its creators.
Conflict & Challenges
31. Magic Duel – Write an epic magic duel between two powerful wizards or sorcerers. Focus on creative use of magic.
32. Futuristic Dystopia – Imagine a dystopian future where society is controlled by corporations. Write a rebellion scene.
33. Alien Diplomacy – Write a scene where humans negotiate peace with an alien species for the first time.
34. Survival on an Uncharted Planet – Write about a team crash-landing on a mysterious planet. What challenges do they face?
35. Telepathy Gone Wrong – Create a story where telepathic communication backfires, causing chaos among those who use it.
36. Fae Court Politics – Write about the inner workings of a fae court, with political intrigue and magical manipulation.
37. Symbiotic Relationship – Write a story where an alien species requires a symbiotic bond with another species to survive.
38. Shape-Shifting Battle – Write a battle scene where both combatants are shape-shifters. How do they outsmart each other?
39. Uncontrollable Power – Write about a character who gains a new, uncontrollable power. How do they handle it?
40. Artificial Gravity Failure – Write a scene where artificial gravity on a spaceship fails. How do the characters react?
Perspective & Point of View
41. Non-Human POV – Write a scene from the perspective of a non-human (alien, dragon, robot, etc.) and how they view humans.
42. Object POV – Write a story from the point of view of a magical artifact or futuristic device.
43. Villain’s Perspective – Rewrite a pivotal scene from the villain’s point of view, explaining their motivations.
44. Mind-Meld – Write a scene where two characters experience a mind-meld. How does it affect their relationship and understanding?
45. AI POV – Write from the perspective of an AI that is learning about human emotions for the first time.
Miscellaneous & Fun Prompts
46. Sci-Fi Tech Ad – Write an advertisement for a new piece of futuristic technology. What are its uses and potential downsides?
47. Fantasy Cookbook – Create a menu for a tavern in your fantasy world, complete with magical drinks and enchanted meals.
48. Starship Design – Design a unique starship for a crew of adventurers. Describe its layout, capabilities, and any quirky features.
49. Create a New Currency – Invent a new form of currency in your world. What does it look like? How is it earned or spent?
50. Interstellar News Report – Write a news article or report about a major event happening in a galaxy far, far away.
Bonus Activity: 30-Day Writing Mastery Challenge with the Plot Mage Planner
Activity – For the next 30 days, fully immerse yourself in your writing project by using the Plot Mage’s All-in-One Writing Planner.
Here’s how!
1. Day 1 – Start with character creation using the guided worksheets in the planner. Fill out the character profiles and experiment with different backstories and traits.
2. Day 2-5 – Dive into the world-building section, where you can craft your world’s geography, politics, and culture using detailed prompts and templates.
3. Day 6-10 – Develop your plot with the fully guided general outline. The planner’s roadmap will help you break down your novel’s key plot points and arcs.
4. Day 11-15 – Organize your book series overview. Plan out future books or tie in different plot threads with the automated and synced pages for maximum cohesion.
5. Day 16-20 – Take advantage of the repository of writer tools integrated in the planner. Research, brainstorm, or discover new writing aids from all over the web in one convenient place.
6. Day 21-25 – Refine your writing by using the planner’s automated daily writing goals and tracking pages. Keep your progress in sync across devices and stay on top of your schedule.
7. Day 26-30 – Reflect on your journey. Use the planner’s overview to assess your story’s progress and tweak any sections, ensuring everything is aligned before moving forward.
Try these exercises by using this world bible, tinker and play around with this tool
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in my dnd setting the most eldritch of creatures is an ape that is impossibly wide. Whatever room you're in, this ape is wider than that. Imagine the widest room you can imagine. This ape is wider. It's other proportions remain the same. His name is Wide Ape.
Actually let me go say this on main. This is a song from a black man raised in poverty by a single mother. In the song he narrates his hardships and says he understands her struggles and loves her and is thankful for her love. And you HAD to go on my fucking post and talk about fucking Hamilton with the same fucking breath, refusing to engage in any meaningful way with the themes of the song and refusing to examine why you are specifically turned off against this specific song beyond "it's too fast". Are you fucking stupid. Are you literally fucking stupid
Why are you using chatgpt to get through college. Why are you spending so much time and money on something just to be functionally illiterate and have zero new skills at the end of it all. Literally shooting yourself in the foot. If you want to waste thirty grand you can always just buy a sportscar.
I’m really starting to think you people don’t understand what university is for. You’re buying the accreditation that you can do these things. It doesn’t matter how you do them.
I can assure you if you're going to school to be an xray tech or a surgical assistant it does very much matter how you do the stuff your accreditation says you can do. We aren't all business majors.
Yes, but you actually can’t do an X-ray without an X-ray machine and you can’t do surgery without scalpels. We already rely on technology for everything. Offloading cognitive tasks just frees us up to do more. If you can do your job with chatgpt, but can’t without, you can still do your job. I’m sure you would find university much much harder without access to google or the internet too.
Do you think scalpels are magic and do a little song and dance and perform the surgery themselves like Beauty and the Beast characters and the surgeon is there to conduct the background music
What do you think will happen when your employer, who hired you because they saw you have a certificate to say that you have specific skills and knowledge, starts expecting you to have and use those skills and knowledge and you can't because you think a university degree is just a piece of paper that you buy
"Offloading cognitive tasks just frees us up to do more"
When you're in school, the cognitive tasks are there for the explicit purpose of being brain exercises. It's weightlifting. It is FOR building your mental muscles and making you a stronger thinker and planner. "Offloading the cognitive tasks", then, is just Not Doing The Weightlifting. What happens when you pay for your gym membership and just stand around messing around on your phone? Nothing. Nothing happens. Just money leaving your wallet. Nothing else.
Using AI is a short term pleasure that is going to fuck you over in the long term, and by the time you realize that you didn't build the necessary muscles you need for the cognitive tasks required of your ACTUAL JOB (or, like, adult life in general), it's going to be too late to do anything about it... except going back and doing the real work all over again to get you up to speed.
And if your response as a college student is "Ugh i'm already good at this though, i don't need the practice" -- sweetie, you have no idea how good at it you could be though. If you're good at it now but you keep working on it, you're going to ASTONISH yourself in a couple years with how good at it you can get. I was a good writer when I was in college; I am an ASTRONOMICALLY better writer now, because I put in the work. But you have to lift the weights and build your muscles to get there, even when it's tedious. There aren't any shortcuts for this. You can be content with your own mediocrity, or you can believe that you're capable of growing towards brilliance. Which one will you choose, mediocrity or brilliance? You get to pick right now.
THE ENTIRE WEST IS BEING PUT UP FOR SALE AND I AM BEGGING YOU TO CALL YOUR SENATORS
Trump’s budget bill has many, many things in it, but buried amongst it is the MILLIONS OF ACRES OF PUBLIC LAND FOR SALE.
This is the entirety of the Arizona state forests, the entire Cascades mountain range. Swathes of pristine desert around the national parks in Utah. On the doorstep of Jackson Hole.
THIS BILL IS BIG, BUT IT CAN BE AMENDED AND ABSOLUTELY MUST NOT PASS AS IS please.
If you have ever enjoyed the wilderness, we stand to lose it all forever.
CALLING your senators - NOT JUST IN THE WEST. ALL SENATORS, is CRUCIAL.
Outdoor alliance has a great resource for reaching out.
The Senate’s spending package could offer up nearly 300 million acres of public lands for sale—a vast area that includes nearly 100,000 mile
I don’t have a huge following but please, everywhere I have ever loved, the forests I grew up playing in, the land I got married on, is all at risk and I am begging.
do not download and burn your music to cds. do not contribute to plastic and e-waste. get a 2TB external hard drive or even a 64GB pen drive and put your music collection of mp3s and FLACs (!!!) on there. if you have a raspberry pi or an old, mostly broken laptop lying around put jellyfin on there and you can stream your music collection to every device in your house. if you're willing to do a little more research you can setup a vpn to your home network and stream your music collection anywhere.
What's that? I wrote a step-by-step guide on how to do this including hardware recommendations if you want to get a little more hardcore about it? Yes.
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