DM tip: write fiction

I started writing little scenes about the locations keyed in my hex map and it's transformed my game for the better. The player-facing mapWhile preparing my campaign's hex map, I decided separately after a series of strange synchronicities—things said to me in passing, posts surfacing on the timeline, the rediscovery of a book on writing I was gifted but never read—I ought to write more fiction. I don’t think of myself as a "writer" but I know I'm capable of good writing if I set my mind to it and the weather's favorable. Still, there's much to improve and I wish to exert myself creatively. Most of the writing I do is nonfiction; whenever I write a story I feel like a clumsy child trying desperately to mash the square peg through the circular hole. I decided three hand-written pages a day, because that’s what my friend who’s doing Artist’s Way (another synchronicity) recommends. I’ve never read the book but I hear it’s very useful. No finished stories, just scenes and dialogue. We're…