🧰 You’ve got the idea. Here’s how to make it.
No excuses: “I can’t draw”, “I haven’t got a studio”, “I don’t speak English”. It all exists online, and a good chunk of it is free.
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Free is nearly always limited: watermark, short length, a few tries a day. That’s normal, that’s the game.
The serious bit: many of these tools forbid commercial use in the free version, and some keep rights over what you make. Read their terms before you publish. Here, you sign your work with your own name — so it had better really belong to you.
And credit the tool when you publish. Same rule as for the book: we invented nothing, and we say so.
Hammock games
📖 “The dictionary of the novel’s words that nobody but me ever invented” — Draw a word from the novel’s world, its definition and its extract.
“My boss fired me” → “My jarl banished me from the longship”
“I’m burnt out” → “I did the great reset”
“I got a lawyer” → “I raised my shield with a Rune Reader”
🗣️ Quick-fire — Someone’s just said something to you and you had no comeback. Pick the situation, get three answers: calm, firm, or I’m out.
🎲 The creative draw — A card whispers a constraint, a place or a character. Over to you to turn it into a story.
Film and edit
- CapCut — simple editing
- Shotcut — editing, open source and free
- Canva Video — video in your browser
Record your voice
- Audacity — the same one, it does it all
- ElevenLabs — synthetic voices
Translate
- DeepL — the best for European languages
- LibreTranslate — open source, no account
Write
- LibreOffice — open-source word processor
- Scribens — spell-checker for French
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