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Welp, on the topic of writing prompts. I thought I'd be up like a lark, then suddenly I feel like I couldn't describe something even if it was the most colorful thing right in front of me. Anybody got any motivational advice to spare? (Like "we won't laugh even if it sucks balls")

Thanks, I should have said. Even though I've been grumpy as all hell past few days. And even though I didn't like the drawings myself, because I drew them from Google photos, just combining two photos for the Indian.

That thing with backup - I figured they were broke and there was a lot of stuff, so they couldn't afford to backup all of it.

Yeah, I guess it's not the most common situation in the indie world. I'll probably just fill all the blank spaces with made-up names. Not like my story is very serious or realistic.

For evaluation by a real-life game developer.

Roughly a half of my story goes like this:

A video game development studio faces a prospect of their leader's bankruptcy.
The studio has a month to present a prototype to potential producers, so they get down to work with desperate abandon.
After a week they find a businessman interested in financing their work. But the businessman wants to have a say in the design, and the leader just can't agree to his ideas. Two days later a power surge brings their main computers down, and they are forced to cooperate, to get money to recover their data and continue their work.

How plausible is that? Also, I've got no idea what I mean by "potential producers". Maybe potential publishers would be a better idea, but I'm not sure how fantastical it would be if the studio had to make a finished product within a month, considering that most of the storyline of the game is written during that month... and the mechanics of magic is implemented. On the request of the businessman.

Looking forward to reading it.

If the test turns out alright, maybe you'd be interested in a couple of writing prompt challenges to keep creative juices flowing? I've been meaning to do it myself, but it's hard to do on your own.

That's a noble deed, indeed. And you are? I mean I don't care about the information explosion, and lots of garbage in my searches as it is. But what does this wiki intend to add to the Internet? Have you, perhaps, in the course of many years of research gained a new insight, some innovative, unorthodox knowledge on the matter, and, obviously, all other sites wouldn't accept it?

From where I currently stand, fanfiction or whatever, as long as it makes you feel good, it's cool. After all, some people call the same thing "the next entry in the franchise" or even "series reboot". Only for some reason they get paid for it.