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Ideas for Genre Mashups

| March 11, 2024

On Friday, the writing prompts were related to genre mashups, and today, I’m sharing an article from one of the Story Engine folks on how you can use the Story Engine cards to create mashed-up genre story plots. The Story Engine cards are among my favorite card-based writing tools, so it’s neat to see these […]

Fun for Friday: Genre Mashups

| March 8, 2024

Looking for a fun idea for a story? Check out this Sub-Genre Mash-Up game, in which you roll a d20 twice to get the sub-genres you’re going to combine for a story! If you don’t have a d20 handy, you can use a random number generator, or you can use my rolls of 7 and […]