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Watabou fan. I think the procedural generators he makes are little digital works of art that I could play with endlessly.</p><p id="c09c">Pardon my fandom, but heaven should have a special place for people who make beautiful things for free and fun.</p><p id="b08a">In this one, you’ll get three cards; the best suggestion I can make is to read the descriptions (“Four of Swords”) and let your mind wander or “go squint”, as we said as kids when looking at those <a href="https://youtu.be/ZbKU3_H3FVw?t=74">3D images with the unseeable sailboat.</a></p><p id="6fd2">Become a tarot card reader and peer into the future. Or decide, you’ve got the power after all.</p><div id="b301" class="link-block"> <a href="https://watabou.itch.io/procgen-tarot"> <div> <div> <h2>Procgen Tarot</h2> <div><h3>This thing is created for the summer PROCJAM 2018. I have a trip exactly for the duration of the jam, so I started…</h3></div> <div><p>watabou.itch.io</p></div> </div> <div> <div style="background-image: url(https://miro.readmedium.com/v2/resize:fit:320/0*r_pCUUJ6FQmc4OPX)"></div> </div> </div> </a> </div><h1 id="4ef4">Character Death</h1><p id="96b3">The ultimate fate of us all. Pardon the odd typo here and there, but this little generator spits out some interesting death-related prompts. So give it a spin and see whether your character ends up in a ditch or the belly of a bear.</p><p id="7670">If you don’t like the main event, Other Likely Causes have some ideas too. Or if none of those endings suits, then hit the browser back button to try again.</p><div id="e5f9" class="link-block"> <a href="https://www.character-generator.org.uk/cause-of-death/"> <div>

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    </div><h1 id="4188">Character is Fate</h1><p id="fab4">For me, the conflict of Character vs Fate is inextricably linked to Character vs Self. I believe these two are firmly intertwined. Who the character is, defines their core flaw, and it is this flaw that drives their internal conflict and its resolution within the story.<i> A character’s flaws decide their fate.</i></p><div id="c5d1"><pre>But <span class="hljs-keyword">that</span>’s a Microcraft article <span class="hljs-keyword">for</span> another <span class="hljs-built_in">day</span>.</pre></div><h1 id="bb66">Challenge Requirements</h1><p id="dab8">Your story must:</p><ol><li>Include the character struggling with their own fate. They do not go gently into that good night; they <i>rage</i>.</li><li>Be <b>minimum</b> of 50 words long and a <b>maximum</b> of 1000 words, <b>excluding</b> the title, subtitle, and any post-story bio/links. (We use Medium’s own <a href="https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/215194537-Using-the-story-editor">word count feature</a>.)</li><li>Be fictional, even if it includes factual information or concerns.</li><li>Use “<b>Fate</b>” as one of your five tags.</li></ol><p id="0ac0" type="7">Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.</p><p id="db04" type="7">Dylan Thomas — 1914–1953</p></article></body>

Weekly Prompt: Character vs Fate

How will it all end? What destiny hounds them?

Photo by petr sidorov on Unsplash, adapted by Zane Dickens

Welcome to the fourth weekly challenge for August, where the theme is Rings of Conflict.

As we said in the Monthly Theme announcement, the goal is to get you to focus more on the interactions between the rings of conflict to create more engaging micro fiction and flash fiction. Each layer of conflict interacts and produces more and more texture and tension.

This is the week that you decide your character’s fate.

You have only two generators this time. We either have a vague and perhaps ominous understanding of the fate of our character, or we have an obvious and final ending to our tale.

These generators let you play with two options. They’re for fun; use them to spark ideas (like Ellie Jacobson’s newsletter) or ignore them and write the ending you always had in mind.

But remember to have your character struggle and fight with their fate.

Ambiguous Fate

This one will take a bit more imagination, and if you hadn’t noticed yet, I’m a Watabou fan. I think the procedural generators he makes are little digital works of art that I could play with endlessly.

Pardon my fandom, but heaven should have a special place for people who make beautiful things for free and fun.

In this one, you’ll get three cards; the best suggestion I can make is to read the descriptions (“Four of Swords”) and let your mind wander or “go squint”, as we said as kids when looking at those 3D images with the unseeable sailboat.

Become a tarot card reader and peer into the future. Or decide, you’ve got the power after all.

Procgen Tarot

This thing is created for the summer PROCJAM 2018. I have a trip exactly for the duration of the jam, so I started…

watabou.itch.io

Character Death

The ultimate fate of us all. Pardon the odd typo here and there, but this little generator spits out some interesting death-related prompts. So give it a spin and see whether your character ends up in a ditch or the belly of a bear.

If you don’t like the main event, Other Likely Causes have some ideas too. Or if none of those endings suits, then hit the browser back button to try again.

Cause Of Death Generator

Automatic cause of death generator tool. Choose some keywords, and we will automatically create a cause-of-death in…

www.character-generator.org.uk

Character is Fate

For me, the conflict of Character vs Fate is inextricably linked to Character vs Self. I believe these two are firmly intertwined. Who the character is, defines their core flaw, and it is this flaw that drives their internal conflict and its resolution within the story. A character’s flaws decide their fate.

But that’s a Microcraft article for another day.

Challenge Requirements

Your story must:

Include the character struggling with their own fate. They do not go gently into that good night; they rage.
Be minimum of 50 words long and a maximum of 1000 words, excluding the title, subtitle, and any post-story bio/links. (We use Medium’s own word count feature.)
Be fictional, even if it includes factual information or concerns.
Use “Fate” as one of your five tags.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas — 1914–1953