There are some basic elements of story that are helpful for a game master to know. This post is about those elements and why games and stories share them.
Tag: writing
My Writing Process
Anyone who makes art, writes, or designs over a long period of time develops a process. Having a process is critical on the days I don't feel like writing or I am struggling with the words. I look at where I am at in the process and do the next thing.
Grumpy Musings About AI
There are legitimate concerns about AI and the impact it will have on people who write, paint, make songs, and do graphic design. It will change things but mostly for the commodity producers.
Some Writing Advice is Crap
I have a shelf full of books about writing and storytelling. Some of them are written by famous writers. Some are written by people you have never heard and teach the craft of fiction at well regarded university writing programs. They all have something useful in them. They all have varying degrees of bullshit. Here …
Book Review: Make to Know
Make to Know is a book about art and creativity. Ostensibly, it is for "creative people," but I think it has something for all of us to consider.
What Do I Have To Do?
Feel free to eavesdrop while I pace, mutter and gesticulate. How do I write good stuff? However you do it. What? What kind of answer is that? I need details! Techniques! Strategy! There’s no formula. You write and you keep writing and eventually, you get good at it. Ray Bradbury never went to college. George …
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