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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deuce Traveler" data-source="post: 6712757" data-attributes="member: 34958">My entry has also been posted.  I usually follow three rules.1. Don't let a good idea waste an entry.  I really liked the Painful Pun ingredient and had thoughts of using it as the central part of the story.  A cursed joke that killed someone after some time unless they found someone to pass it onto.  Nothing fit well with this to make a cohesive adventure, so I dropped it.2. Play to your strengths.  I still struggled to put the jovial innkeeper and a desperate gnoll together in a story.  A jovial gnoll and desperate innkeeper would be easy, the reverse is hard.  So now I thought about a light-hearted romp where you could play an evil party helping a problem among monstrous NPCs.  But the problem is that my writing and imagination has often failed with comedy.  Since I had trouble with a humorous way to make an adventure that connected these ingredients, I reluctantly started looking at how to put it together in a macabre way.3. Remember to make the ingredients integral.  It's all about the points.  If I use an ingredient that is so integral that removing it would make the adventure fall apart, I give the ingredient use 2 points.  If I use an ingredient that is not integral, but still well-used, I give myself 1 point there.  If I do not use an ingredient, or only use the name of the ingredient for a place or person, then I give myself 0 points there.  I then look over some of my drafts, either in my mind or on paper, and the path that seems to lead to the most points is the one I run.  I think it over before I fall asleep and start writing it the next day.One more for when it's done.4. Never Take it Personal.  If I lose, I never take things personal.  I've lost plenty of times when I felt I had a better entry (and more when I didn't) than my opponent, but much of this is subjective.  Instead, enjoy the practice in writing and be satisfied when you made a solid entry, even when you lose.</blockquote>

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