Vulcan Stev's Database gives us this months prompt Inspiration! Where Does Yours Come From? for the RPG Blog Carnival. This post is mostly about turning the inspiration you will surely have into whatever you actually want at the end or as Edison put it "Genius is 1% Inspiration, 99% Perspiration". My suggestions to anyone trying to reliably 'create on demand': 1. Have your tools ready to catch the sparks 2. Get from zero to something, because you can work with something. 3. Stand on something 4. Sketch out your structure if you risk interruption 5. Save all your ideas I lay this out for blogging but so too for adventures. First - have your tools ready I follow the Egan doctrine, a kind of 'hair-trigger pomodoro' - which is being ready to seize any free 20 mins to just push something along. Small progress, made often, adds to a sizeable movement in the end. To get specific, I put together this list of d20 small viable blogging tasks to illustrate what I mean. Practically this means…
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