Danielle Krage is a writer and creator of Questful World.

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PHYSICAL

I’ve just completed Ray Bradbury’s 1000 Nights challenge—to read a poem, a short story and an essay a night for 1000 nights (2.7 years). I’ll include one physical item from each of these categories. Ones that delighted me, and I hope you might enjoy too. (Prior to this I read fiction, but hadn’t touched poetry or short stories since school!)

• Poetry collection that I found accessible and dynamic: Machete by Tomás Q. Morín
• Essay collection that made me laugh and cry: The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
• Short story collection that was both fun and philosophical: Sum:Forty Tales from the Afterlives, by David Eagleman

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DIGITAL

• This is the Ray Bradbury talk that sparked it all off. (I also took his advice to write a short story a week for a year.) I love his zest and gusto!https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/_W-r7ABrMYU?rel=0&autoplay=0&showinfo=0&enablejsapi=0
• This site sends you a poem a day. (I still chose to read collections of poets I was interested in, but it’s a super easy way to get started if you want to explore more poetry.)

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INVISIBLE

I’m now hooked on doing extended creative Quests, and will be starting a new one shortly. My mantra has become:

Make it hard enough to matter—and fun enough to finish.

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09/3/25