A writing tip from Salinger and Lupin on lexical density.

Five made-up words in one sentence. Your reader is doing vocabulary homework before they're doing story work.
Space out your invented terminology. Let each one land.

https://inkbreaker.com

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"Alles war zu weich. Eine Welt aus Kissen, die versuchte, Pfeile aufzuhalten."

"Sturm und Echo": Eine Geschichte über den inneren Konflikt einer Tauren-Kriegerin, die zwischen roher Naturgewalt und friedlicher Tradition zerrissen wird.

Keine Heldenreise von der Stange, sondern eine Charakterstudie über Stolz und den Preis der Macht.

📖 Prolog & Kap 1-3 jetzt auf Fanfiktion.de: https://shorturl.at/u8kGB

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New story! 🧸🧸
Alysia Goldenseal, Teddybear Princess Ch.5
https://shaker-e.dreamwidth.org/8132.html
In which a forgotten friend returns!

Possibly forgotten even by the author! 😅

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New writing posted!
Alysia Goldenseal, Teddybear Princess Ch.4

https://shaker-e.dreamwidth.org/7811.html

Alysia returns home to the palace, but her reunion with her father doesn't go as hoped!

No one dies in this chapter!

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The entirety of Making Up Adventurers is still available to be read thanks to archive dot org. All the shares that were viewable without logging in, too. All those stories, all those brave adventurers.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250102123927/https://cohost.org/making-up-adventurers

If anyone would like to take a look. I'm still so proud I was able to do something that kick-started so many talented people's imaginations. It's one of the most joyous experiences I've ever had online.

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"Malice"

A disillusioned knight finds himself in way over his head when he finds a legendary dragon menacing a small community.

CW violence, animal death

https://shaker-e.dreamwidth.org/6957.html

I really enjoyed writing this one. Adapted from a #tttpg adventure scenario I've been simmering for ages.

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"Heelbiters"

A young adventurer tries desperately to convince his companions that the goblins harassing the party are much more dangerous than the average goblin band.

CW blood, death
https://shaker-e.dreamwidth.org/6562.html

To paraphrase a member of the salon, 'Goblin week?? No, goblin strong!!' Took some musing I've done for #ttrpg stuff and wrote a little short.

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"Goblin Week"

https://shaker-e.dreamwidth.org/6238.html

Wizards Meghana and Olivine chat about what makes a goblin a goblin while they watch the Goblin Week Parade.

Maybe I'm a little early for #GoblinWeek, but when the spirit commands, who am I to say "not yet"? This story came about because I just remembered starting a little discourse of a sort by (affectionately) declaring yinglets to be the goblin version of a sergal.

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Mage Hands

https://shaker-e.dreamwidth.org/5409.html

Theophrastus Bombastus, a wizard who only knows one spell (but it's a good one), pleads his case to the council of Magi, but his temper gets the better of him. Just a little bit.

One of my favorites. I really want to write more shorts about Theo, the wizard with a tendency towards berserk anger. I deeply regret that I can't link to every response this prompt received because it was all gold. RIP Cohost.

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