Batch Writing Descriptions

A green banner with black outline. In the center is the text: "I need to write 10 biomes with: 25 creatures, 15 encounters, and 10 towns per biome, with 15 NPCs per town. That's only... 660 descriptions..."

Over the last four years, I have written hundreds of descriptions for new monsters, ingredients, NPCs, backgrounds, classes, towns, clues, and more. Writing one or two comes pretty easily for me, but writing fifty? One-hundred? It becomes daunting, and I often get hit with writer’s block.

So here’s a trick I picked up to help me write out batches of descriptions and avoid that dreaded creative paralysis that plagues writers everywhere.

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