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My Favorite Stream Stories

(Stories with an * are the best of the best)

• Funny
  • A Dragon Kidnaps a Prince by Mistake
  • A Picture Book for Baby Elder Gods (2022)
  • Cinderella Ball with an Alien Princ
  • Hamurai: The Hamster Samurai
  • *Hillbillies Granny Smack a Space Astermaroid
  • The Baby Trials
  • *The End of the World Saved My Marriage
  • *The TRUTH about the So-Called “Hunger Games”
  • *Twitch Chat of the Dead
  • Uncle Randy’s BBQ Pit
  • Welcome to Kitty City
• Cute/Fun
  • *A Chef Outsmarts a Tyrant
  • Cat in the Hat Prequel
  • Santa’s Helper Cat Garland
  • Souper☆Mari the Mary Sue V-Tuber
  • The Shadow in the Corner (2022)
  • The Ten-Million Yen Tuna Heist
• Grimdark
  • *Bob Ross Draws You
  • I Love Stacy
  • I’ve Been a Bad Kid & The Golden Child
  • Memories
  • Serving America’s Youth
  • Shrek Golf
  • The Angel in the Basement 
  • The Children’s Room & I Thought I Was Bad With Pets
  • *The Kitchen Stove
  • The One-Eyed Cathedral
  • The Whistler
  • Vases
• Speculative/Serious
  • Acceptance
  • Clocks on the Beach
  • Defeating The Evil Tyrant
  • *Heavy Memories
  • Last Train Stop
  • Sleeping, But Not Dreaming
  • Thesaurus Magic
• Variety
  • *“A Post-Apocalyptic Christmas” (Short story collection)
  • Flavor Text Prompts
  • Geoguessr Prompts
  • This Person Does Not Exist Prompts

My Favorite Writing Exercises

• If you’ve finished the first draft of a book: So You’ve Written A Book… Now What?
• To see some great opening pages: Fantastic First Pages
• To see some editing in action: Story Surgeon

• Before Writing
  • How to Get Motivation to Write 
  • How to Write Consistently
    
  • How to Stay on Track With Writing
    
  • How to Read Like a Writer
  • Overcoming Writer’s Block
  • What Makes a Good Premise?

•  Getting Started
  • How to Get a Story Idea and Expand it into a Book
  • How to Write If You’re A Lazy-Ass Motherf*cker
  • Five Easy Questions to Outline Your Story
  • A Formula to Outline Any Story
  • How to Write the Beginning of a Story
  • Write Your Story’s Beginning by STEALING!

• Common Problems
  • How to Create a Dynamic Character
  • How to Turn Worldbuilding into a Story
  • The Six Elements of a Good Scene
  • How to Write With Voice
  • How to Write Introspection
  • How to Make Your Story Feel Real

• Just For Fun
  • How to Trick Yourself into Writing/Write if You’re Lazy
  • What Works in Stories for Books vs. Movies
  • Top 8 Bad Excuses for Bad Stories
  • How to Write an Unlikeable Protagonist
  • What We Can Learn from Popular, Bad Stories

• More Advanced Stuff
  • How to Make Exposition Fun to Read
  • How to Make Your Story Fun to Read
  • When to Show vs. Tell
  • How to Write With Setups/Payoffs
  • How to Write With Rhythm
  • Using Magic: The Gathering’s 5 Colors to Improve Your Characters

• Leveling Up
  • “Flaccid Verbs” and How to Firm Them Up! 
  • Killing the Copula
  • Chuck Palahniuk and Why “Thought Verbs” Suck
  • How to Write Better Dialogue
  • How to Write Beautiful Sentences
  • Things Fun for Writers that Are NOT Fun for Readers

• Publishing
  • What I’ve Learned from Each of my Failed Books
  • How to Get a Literary Agent
  • How Publishing is Like Dating
  • The 5 Biggest MISCONCEPTIONS in Writing/Publishing