The Fun Zone
Where writing practice pretends it isn’t practice. Roll the dice, fill in the blanks with nonsense, collect badges. Every game ends with actual words on a page — that’s the sneaky bit.
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Story dice
Roll once for a full story starter: hero, place, object, trouble, and a twist. Roll twice if the first one is boring. (It never is.)
Mad libs
Fill the blanks without reading the story first — that’s the rule, that’s the joke. Leave a blank empty and we’ll fill it with nonsense. You have been warned.
True facts, terrible challenges
Weird-but-true NZ and nature facts, each with a 5-minute writing challenge. Facts first, feelings later.
Power word bank
Steal shamelessly. Click a word to copy it, then use it in the next thing you write.
Five-word stories
Hemingway-style micro fiction. Exactly five words. Then read what the other goblins on this page have written (saved only on this device).