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<blockquote data-quote="prabe" data-source="post: 8489328" data-attributes="member: 7016699">Practicing GMing away from the table is hard, but I have thoughts on how one might improve without trying to exercise ...I saw someone else suggest reading upthread on my skim through, and I second that. Fiction won't hurt, but if something nonfiction grabs your attention there's no reason to think it won't help--much modern nonfiction is at least as narrative as fiction. Expanding the set of ideas you've been exposed to is the helpful thing I'm getting at, here, so if you prefer to watch documentaries or videos or whatever, you can include that here.I might also try writing something. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, gaming-related or not, whatever--the point is to get thoughts from the inside of your head to the outside. If you have some other creative hobby that isn't gaming, or gaming-adjacent, or even words, that might help at least as much--flexing different mental muscles and all-a-that. I'd think expressive hobbies would be the key here, the difference between making music and listening to it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prabe, post: 8489328, member: 7016699"] Practicing GMing away from the table is hard, but I have thoughts on how one might improve without trying to exercise ... I saw someone else suggest reading upthread on my skim through, and I second that. Fiction won't hurt, but if something nonfiction grabs your attention there's no reason to think it won't help--much modern nonfiction is at least as narrative as fiction. Expanding the set of ideas you've been exposed to is the helpful thing I'm getting at, here, so if you prefer to watch documentaries or videos or whatever, you can include that here. I might also try writing something. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry, gaming-related or not, whatever--the point is to get thoughts from the inside of your head to the outside. If you have some other creative hobby that isn't gaming, or gaming-adjacent, or even words, that might help at least as much--flexing different mental muscles and all-a-that. I'd think expressive hobbies would be the key here, the difference between making music and listening to it. [/QUOTE]

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