Today's prompt is Discipline.
The daily discipline of writing mirrors the witch’s discipline of spellcraft, where one missed word can turn a charm into a curse.
I try to write every day. I often take the weekend off, but I still do a lot of writing. I honestly just can't stop. I see the same quality in the witches in my games, namely they have to keep practicing their magic.
Take one of my favorite characters: Zatanna. This is her day after all; Zatannurday.
Zatanna rather famously does her magic by speaking backward. It isn't that she speaks the words backward and the magic happens; she has to focus on saying the words backward because that is the intent of the spell. It gives her the focus she needs to make what she wants happen.
That is one of the reasons I am still a fan of Vancian magic for AD&D even though there have been scores of other systems that can work for it. It is the discipline, both for the character and the player, to make the magic count.
Jackson, IL NPC
According to the prompts, this is Week 1, and since today is Saturday, the prompt is Works Hard and Drive.
Greg Armstrong. Greg is a senior at Jackson Public High School. You won't see his name on the honor roll, nor on one of the athletic teams, but where you will find Greg most afternoons and every weekend is Armstrong's Body Shop. No one at JPHS knows car repair like Greg. His pride and joy (and justifiably so) is his 1982 Chevy Camaro painted cherry red. He bought it as a junker and has spent the last couple of years rebuilding it on his own, on his own dime. Since he has completed it, his popularity among the girls has gone way up. He is not a bad kid, but he understands cars a lot better than he understands people.
Graduating in the class of 1986. No. He does not like the song Bitchin' Camaro.
Jackson Soundtrack
Every day, I am also going to pick a song that matches the daily theme. In my Jackson setting, much like any Midwest town in the 1980s, music was important. Who and what you listened to was nearly as important as what you wore and who you hung out with. Music was a personality shorthand. but since this is a "Jackson, IL" soundtrack (though it would work for Carbon Vale, IL too) I am limiting the music to the years 1980 to 1986.
Up first, Elvis Costello and "Everyday I Write the Book." Fairly appropriate, I think.
