Prompts to Play RPGs #AtoZChallenge

The team decided our theme for this month's posts here would be a take "2020 visions of blogging." This set of weekday posts focuses on:

Features a Blog with 2020 Vision

I have read lots of amazing blogs this month, but one that stands out to me as something we all need is more fantasy. The world is on fire (not as much literally anymore as it was just a few months back). So, let’s invest some time in a fantasy world. Maybe you’re a fantasy writer in search of new ideas. Maybe you’re a gamer looking for inspiration to write your own Roleplaying Game (RPG) campaign or scenario. Either way, I definitely recommend checking out Uniquely Maladjusted but Fun. Her theme is a month of prompts and ideas for tabletop role-playing games or prompts for fantasy writers. The prompts are great and give you some great ideas of new and exciting things to incorporate into your worlds. Who could have guessed when she picked the theme months back that we would need to delve into a fantasy world as much as we do today!

What blogs are you PASSIONATE about reading, are PRECIOUS to you, or that bring you PLEASURE to read?

~Jayden R. Vincente (adult fiction writer)

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Oldie but goodie (#AtoZChallenge)

The team decided our theme for this month's posts here would be a take "2020 visions of blogging." This set of weekday posts focuses on:

Blogging Hopes and Dreams for the Future

I was once told "blogging is for old people." And that was about eight years ago (when I was in my mid-twenties, thank you). Technology ages, and it ages fast: Social media keeps reminding me that the generations growing up right now don't blog, and barely use Facebook or Twitter anymore. As someone who likes to keep up with technology, this has been bugging me for a while:

Is blogging getting Old?...

And then I realized I am asking the wrong question. The real question to ask is: Do I care? And if I care, why?

People use social media for a lot of reasons. Some of us do it for audience outreach and marketing. Some do it for community building. Many of us do it as a writing exercise, or to share written resources (in my case, folktales and book reviews). Some of these functions can be moved to newer platforms. Some can't (believe me, I tried sharing folktales on Instagram...). And that's okay.

I ask myself the question: Do I care? I like blogging. I enjoy writing posts, and publishing them, and sharing them on my social media. I enjoy reading the posts of other people. I enjoy reading text that is more than 240 characters long. Maybe it means I'm old. But if I actually grow old, and one day I will be sitting in my hover-chair and scrolling through blog posts on my holo-projector... well, I'll be Okay with that.

Maybe by then, blogging will be retro.

Have you tried moving blogging activities to other media? 

What are your thoughts on the matter?

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