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Storytelling (no matter the medium) needs excitement! Charisma! Presence!
The narrator (no matter the POV) needs an opinion in order for the audience to fully immerse in the narrative.
The lights flared and the cameras turned on to capture the action.
vs.
The lights! The camera! The action!
You exist in a universe where aging is non linear, you could just as easily wake up a toddler as you could a teen or elderly person.
"In today's news, Scientists have finally proven that we're not living in a simulation." You turn off the TV and stare at the glowing red dead pixel that hangs in the air betwen you and the TV.
You’re a leather-jacketed fedora-wearing type of archeologist exploring a new ruin. Through exhaustive study you have translated the inscription carved everywhere inside. It starts “This is not a place of honor…”
Every dragon rider gets a dragon egg to hatch upon their initiation to the guild. When your egg hatched, Your dragon came out a bit… Different.
A famous prompt: Describe a barn as seen by a man whose son has just been killed in a war. Do not mention the son, or war, or death. Do not mention the man who does the seeing.
Stay proud!
As one of Zeus bastard children, you are doomed to be targeted by Hera, however you found a way to get on the queens good side before she found out who your father is.
As a teen you are abandoned by your family. A dog thats been watching u sees you collapse from hunger, it brings you food. It's the start of a strong bond between you. Now 5 years later, you hear of an elixir that grants an extra 50 years of life. Your adventure to extend your dogs life begins.
You were terrified to Marry a non human spouse to keep the peace. It's only when you meet them that you realize that they're far more afraid of humans.
The abandoned child you’ve taken in sleeps on your lap as the god who gave you immortality softly warns you. “This will hurt.”
Saying you dedicate your hunts to the Goddess Artemis started as a weird private joke to yourself. You never thought it would result in the actual goddess visiting you and asking to teach her how to hunt with a rifle.
You are the adventurer who went on an epic quest and defeated the evil king, all to gain the sacred amulet and use its one wish to revive your sister. Now everyone expects you to accept her death and use the wish to undo the damage instead. You refuse.
Being stuck in a time loop for so long, you remember it clearly. And the loop was on the day she rejected you too. You didn't have to, as it will loop back anyway, but you responded as you always did. You can already hear her rejection in your mind. "Ah it's okay I-" "Sure why not."
You made a deal to be immortal. After countless eons and the end of a universe, you finally taste breathable air again. You lived through another big bang and landed on a new world. Ready to start anew.
The world has discovered that you are the fountain of youth. For every 1 hour someone spends with you 30 minutes get added to their life span. Unfortunately, you’re a hermit who just wants to stay at home by yourself.
your parents just sold you as their firstborn to a fey. problem is you’re already an adult.
