Accountability: Story-Telling Collective – Daily Dungeon Design Challenge 2026: Day 1—The Gardeners or the Garden
The Story-Telling Collective runs challenges to help writers develop daily habits for making words. This month—July 2026—, it’s a challenge to create a 31-room dungeon…at one room a day. The intro contained quite a few questions that would help give me an overview of the dungeon and its basic workings, but I always discover that the minute I start to work on the ‘logical’ side of things, the creative dries completely up. For an exercise like this, I’d rather employ the ‘write into the dark’ technique, and write each room as it comes, then draw the threads together as they become apparent with each room…which mirrors the way I usually write story, or poetry. Go figure. My head, it likes to work in the different. It's been a while, so let’s hope, it’s up to this challenge. Day 1 Prompt A room with two exits, each with a different visible cost. OR "Hungry" Concept Initial Thoughts: When I first saw the challenge, I wanted to incorporate something ‘unexpected’ for...
