What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world? The morning light filtered through the diamond-paned windows of the *Lumenvale Daily Chronicle* newsroom, casting fractured rainbows across sheets of parchment that bore the fresh scars of urgent storytelling. I sat at my desk in the corner—the one closest to Continue reading

Describe your life in an alternate universe. The wind-ship “Fortune’s Edge”cut through the amber clouds above the Borderland Reaches like a blade through silk, her enchanted hull gleaming with protective wards that cost more gold than most merchants saw in a lifetime. I stood at the prow, one hand resting on the crystalline navigation orb Continue reading

What’s the most money you’ve ever spent on a meal? Was it worth it? The leather-bound ledger lay open on my writing desk, its pages bearing witness to five decades of careful financial records. My finger traced down the column marked “Exceptional Expenses,” pausing at an entry that still made me smile despite the passage Continue reading

Scour the news for an entirely uninteresting story. Consider how it connects to your life. Write about that. The news scroll had been waiting on my workbench when I arrived at the Municipal Enchantment Workshop that morning, its official seal still warm from the courier’s urgent delivery. I unrolled the parchment with calloused fingers that Continue reading

List 30 things that make you happy. The letter had arrived with the morning post, its formal seal and academic parchment marking it as correspondence from the Lumenvale Institute of Philosophical Studies. Master Cornelius Brightquill had requested—with the polite insistence that scholarly institutions wielded like finely crafted weapons—that I contribute to their upcoming symposium on Continue reading