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Writing for games, TV and movies (with forays into life and political theatre)...

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Senior or Principal Writer gig!

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We're looking for a principal writer for an online shooter. You *must* know from online PvP games. Also, be legally able to work in Mon...
Sunday, January 28, 2024

A Game Writing Glossary

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Here are some terms I've heard thrown around while we were talking about game narrative. Some are entirely idiosyncratic to me and my cr...
Sunday, January 14, 2024

The recipe of a work of art, according to Rothko

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 We saw the Rothko retrospective at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Fascinating to watch how his style changed -- how he found it, an...
Thursday, November 23, 2023

How to Take Creative Criticism

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(This is an adaptation of a talk I've given a few times, at companies I've worked for, and at the East Coast Game Convention. I wrot...

Obligatory scenes, and dialogue by proxy

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There is a lovely scene in The Witcher  tv series, Season 3 episode 4, where Geralt and Yennefer get back together after some time. They hav...
Saturday, September 02, 2023

How to Use AI in your Writing

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 I've been hearing a lot of about the use of AI -- large language models, or LLMs -- like ChatGPT -- in writing. For example, game writi...
Monday, July 03, 2023

Malleable backstories

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Human beings are perfectly capable of absorbing stories non-linearly. Very often we meet a person and only later find out about their past. ...
Sunday, July 02, 2023

A few brief words on backstory

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There's backstory that's in the game, and backstory that is in the game bible. I am all for backstory that makes its way into the ga...
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