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  1. Update!! My feed may have been quiet, but a lot of work has been happening behind the scenes. 🚧

    Over the past several weeks, I've been overhauling Writing Games to improve accessibility, UX, and performance. One big change is that the site moved from .com to writing-games.org.

    Please update any links or bookmarks! 🙏 And if anything appears broken or weird, do let me know. There's always a chance I missed something.

    More to come soon...

    #TextGames #WebAccessibility #WritingGames

  2. Update!! My feed may have been quiet, but a lot of work has been happening behind the scenes. 🚧

    Over the past several weeks, I've been overhauling Writing Games to improve accessibility, UX, and performance. One big change is that the site moved from .com to writing-games.org.

    Please update any links or bookmarks! 🙏 And if anything appears broken or weird, do let me know. There's always a chance I missed something.

    More to come soon...

    #TextGames #WebAccessibility #WritingGames

  3. Update!! My feed may have been quiet, but a lot of work has been happening behind the scenes. 🚧

    Over the past several weeks, I've been overhauling Writing Games to improve accessibility, UX, and performance. One big change is that the site moved from .com to writing-games.org.

    Please update any links or bookmarks! 🙏 And if anything appears broken or weird, do let me know. There's always a chance I missed something.

    More to come soon...

    #TextGames #WebAccessibility #WritingGames

  4. CW: writing games

    #ScribesAndMakers If you were to retell one of your novels from memory, how much do you think you would miss?

    I'd love to make a "nebulos recounts empath & augur from memory" - see how I'd hack it as an oral storyteller. I'm sure the pacing would be off, and I'd doubt that I could manage to get all the nice wording I'd put into it, but it's a separate skill, one that I do have some interest in building... who knows, maybe we'll see it as a promotional activity once this publishing train gets rolling?

    #WritersCoffeeClub Should anything in fiction be off-limits? What?

    Funnily enough just went on a ramble about this yesterday about another fanfiction-turned-commercial-fiction that has some truly content-warning worthy content. I think ultimately though that's due to non-existent disclaimers and the reviewing body not being clear enough that it's a work of kink/gratification.

    More generally though, I suspect that "off-limits" may be a hard way to discuss this topic. More useful might be to say that people should be prepared to deal with the consequences of writing fiction - and tackling the systemic inequalities that protect certain groups from consequences while preventing others from enacting them...

    #writingGames

  5. CW: writing games

    #ScribesAndMakers If you were to retell one of your novels from memory, how much do you think you would miss?

    I'd love to make a "nebulos recounts empath & augur from memory" - see how I'd hack it as an oral storyteller. I'm sure the pacing would be off, and I'd doubt that I could manage to get all the nice wording I'd put into it, but it's a separate skill, one that I do have some interest in building... who knows, maybe we'll see it as a promotional activity once this publishing train gets rolling?

    #WritersCoffeeClub Should anything in fiction be off-limits? What?

    Funnily enough just went on a ramble about this yesterday about another fanfiction-turned-commercial-fiction that has some truly content-warning worthy content. I think ultimately though that's due to non-existent disclaimers and the reviewing body not being clear enough that it's a work of kink/gratification.

    More generally though, I suspect that "off-limits" may be a hard way to discuss this topic. More useful might be to say that people should be prepared to deal with the consequences of writing fiction - and tackling the systemic inequalities that protect certain groups from consequences while preventing others from enacting them...

    #writingGames

  6. CW: writing games

    #ScribesAndMakers If you were to retell one of your novels from memory, how much do you think you would miss?

    I'd love to make a "nebulos recounts empath & augur from memory" - see how I'd hack it as an oral storyteller. I'm sure the pacing would be off, and I'd doubt that I could manage to get all the nice wording I'd put into it, but it's a separate skill, one that I do have some interest in building... who knows, maybe we'll see it as a promotional activity once this publishing train gets rolling?

    #WritersCoffeeClub Should anything in fiction be off-limits? What?

    Funnily enough just went on a ramble about this yesterday about another fanfiction-turned-commercial-fiction that has some truly content-warning worthy content. I think ultimately though that's due to non-existent disclaimers and the reviewing body not being clear enough that it's a work of kink/gratification.

    More generally though, I suspect that "off-limits" may be a hard way to discuss this topic. More useful might be to say that people should be prepared to deal with the consequences of writing fiction - and tackling the systemic inequalities that protect certain groups from consequences while preventing others from enacting them...

    #writingGames

  7. CW: writing games

    #ScribesAndMakers If you were to retell one of your novels from memory, how much do you think you would miss?

    I'd love to make a "nebulos recounts empath & augur from memory" - see how I'd hack it as an oral storyteller. I'm sure the pacing would be off, and I'd doubt that I could manage to get all the nice wording I'd put into it, but it's a separate skill, one that I do have some interest in building... who knows, maybe we'll see it as a promotional activity once this publishing train gets rolling?

    #WritersCoffeeClub Should anything in fiction be off-limits? What?

    Funnily enough just went on a ramble about this yesterday about another fanfiction-turned-commercial-fiction that has some truly content-warning worthy content. I think ultimately though that's due to non-existent disclaimers and the reviewing body not being clear enough that it's a work of kink/gratification.

    More generally though, I suspect that "off-limits" may be a hard way to discuss this topic. More useful might be to say that people should be prepared to deal with the consequences of writing fiction - and tackling the systemic inequalities that protect certain groups from consequences while preventing others from enacting them...

    #writingGames

  8. CW: writing games

    #ScribesAndMakers If you were to retell one of your novels from memory, how much do you think you would miss?

    I'd love to make a "nebulos recounts empath & augur from memory" - see how I'd hack it as an oral storyteller. I'm sure the pacing would be off, and I'd doubt that I could manage to get all the nice wording I'd put into it, but it's a separate skill, one that I do have some interest in building... who knows, maybe we'll see it as a promotional activity once this publishing train gets rolling?

    #WritersCoffeeClub Should anything in fiction be off-limits? What?

    Funnily enough just went on a ramble about this yesterday about another fanfiction-turned-commercial-fiction that has some truly content-warning worthy content. I think ultimately though that's due to non-existent disclaimers and the reviewing body not being clear enough that it's a work of kink/gratification.

    More generally though, I suspect that "off-limits" may be a hard way to discuss this topic. More useful might be to say that people should be prepared to deal with the consequences of writing fiction - and tackling the systemic inequalities that protect certain groups from consequences while preventing others from enacting them...

    #writingGames

  9. CW: WritersCoffeeClub — What do you dislike as a reader and thus avoid in your own work?

    Let's pick something mildly controversial, eh?

    I don't like ensemble casts lmao. I feel like I always end up only really liking one of the ensemble, and invariably the one who gets the least amount of screen time, thus leading me to spend the whole time getting my hopes up for ensemble roulette. So in my own writing we get 100% queer-coded guile-hero deadpan-snarker protagonist time!

    #WritersCoffeeClub #AmWriting #WritingGames

  10. CW: WritersCoffeeClub — What do you dislike as a reader and thus avoid in your own work?

    Let's pick something mildly controversial, eh?

    I don't like ensemble casts lmao. I feel like I always end up only really liking one of the ensemble, and invariably the one who gets the least amount of screen time, thus leading me to spend the whole time getting my hopes up for ensemble roulette. So in my own writing we get 100% queer-coded guile-hero deadpan-snarker protagonist time!

    #WritersCoffeeClub #AmWriting #WritingGames

  11. CW: WritersCoffeeClub — What do you dislike as a reader and thus avoid in your own work?

    Let's pick something mildly controversial, eh?

    I don't like ensemble casts lmao. I feel like I always end up only really liking one of the ensemble, and invariably the one who gets the least amount of screen time, thus leading me to spend the whole time getting my hopes up for ensemble roulette. So in my own writing we get 100% queer-coded guile-hero deadpan-snarker protagonist time!

    #WritersCoffeeClub #AmWriting #WritingGames

  12. CW: WritersCoffeeClub — What do you dislike as a reader and thus avoid in your own work?

    Let's pick something mildly controversial, eh?

    I don't like ensemble casts lmao. I feel like I always end up only really liking one of the ensemble, and invariably the one who gets the least amount of screen time, thus leading me to spend the whole time getting my hopes up for ensemble roulette. So in my own writing we get 100% queer-coded guile-hero deadpan-snarker protagonist time!

    #WritersCoffeeClub #AmWriting #WritingGames

  13. CW: WritersCoffeeClub — What do you dislike as a reader and thus avoid in your own work?

    Let's pick something mildly controversial, eh?

    I don't like ensemble casts lmao. I feel like I always end up only really liking one of the ensemble, and invariably the one who gets the least amount of screen time, thus leading me to spend the whole time getting my hopes up for ensemble roulette. So in my own writing we get 100% queer-coded guile-hero deadpan-snarker protagonist time!

    #WritersCoffeeClub #AmWriting #WritingGames

  14. CW: writing games

    #ScribesAndMakers Share the last sentence you wrote in your WIP

    The last thing I did was finish a short story, so

    "The noodlemaker and the roboticist looked to their counterparts, then each other, and bowed."

    #WritersCoffeeClub In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?

    I think part of the reason my "niche" changes so much is that my writing is very much reflective of whatever is going on in my life, which in turn is always changing. When I presumably, eventually, stop writing as much for my own processing purposes, maybe I'll start to be more consistent. But until then, it'll be a merry-go-round of genre, voice, style, etc.

    #WritingGames

  15. CW: writing games

    #ScribesAndMakers Share the last sentence you wrote in your WIP

    The last thing I did was finish a short story, so

    "The noodlemaker and the roboticist looked to their counterparts, then each other, and bowed."

    #WritersCoffeeClub In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?

    I think part of the reason my "niche" changes so much is that my writing is very much reflective of whatever is going on in my life, which in turn is always changing. When I presumably, eventually, stop writing as much for my own processing purposes, maybe I'll start to be more consistent. But until then, it'll be a merry-go-round of genre, voice, style, etc.

    #WritingGames

  16. CW: writing games

    #ScribesAndMakers Share the last sentence you wrote in your WIP

    The last thing I did was finish a short story, so

    "The noodlemaker and the roboticist looked to their counterparts, then each other, and bowed."

    #WritersCoffeeClub In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?

    I think part of the reason my "niche" changes so much is that my writing is very much reflective of whatever is going on in my life, which in turn is always changing. When I presumably, eventually, stop writing as much for my own processing purposes, maybe I'll start to be more consistent. But until then, it'll be a merry-go-round of genre, voice, style, etc.

    #WritingGames

  17. CW: writing games

    #ScribesAndMakers Share the last sentence you wrote in your WIP

    The last thing I did was finish a short story, so

    "The noodlemaker and the roboticist looked to their counterparts, then each other, and bowed."

    #WritersCoffeeClub In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?

    I think part of the reason my "niche" changes so much is that my writing is very much reflective of whatever is going on in my life, which in turn is always changing. When I presumably, eventually, stop writing as much for my own processing purposes, maybe I'll start to be more consistent. But until then, it'll be a merry-go-round of genre, voice, style, etc.

    #WritingGames

  18. CW: writing games

    #ScribesAndMakers Share the last sentence you wrote in your WIP

    The last thing I did was finish a short story, so

    "The noodlemaker and the roboticist looked to their counterparts, then each other, and bowed."

    #WritersCoffeeClub In what ways do you see yourself reflected in your own work?

    I think part of the reason my "niche" changes so much is that my writing is very much reflective of whatever is going on in my life, which in turn is always changing. When I presumably, eventually, stop writing as much for my own processing purposes, maybe I'll start to be more consistent. But until then, it'll be a merry-go-round of genre, voice, style, etc.

    #WritingGames

  19. CW: writing games

    #WritersCoffeeClub What's your niche?

    Definitely the "once fully explained, becomes even more bizarre and inexplicable" niche. Extremely marketable, I know.

    #ScribesAndMakers What's the lowest number of readers/viewers/users of your creative work that you would consider cause for celebration?

    Been finding that one thoughtful comment about how my work touched them is incomparable to any amount of numbers, to be honest.

    #WritingGames #AmWriting

  20. CW: writing games

    #WritersCoffeeClub What's your niche?

    Definitely the "once fully explained, becomes even more bizarre and inexplicable" niche. Extremely marketable, I know.

    #ScribesAndMakers What's the lowest number of readers/viewers/users of your creative work that you would consider cause for celebration?

    Been finding that one thoughtful comment about how my work touched them is incomparable to any amount of numbers, to be honest.

    #WritingGames #AmWriting

  21. CW: writing games

    #WritersCoffeeClub What's your niche?

    Definitely the "once fully explained, becomes even more bizarre and inexplicable" niche. Extremely marketable, I know.

    #ScribesAndMakers What's the lowest number of readers/viewers/users of your creative work that you would consider cause for celebration?

    Been finding that one thoughtful comment about how my work touched them is incomparable to any amount of numbers, to be honest.

    #WritingGames #AmWriting

  22. CW: writing games

    #WritersCoffeeClub What's your niche?

    Definitely the "once fully explained, becomes even more bizarre and inexplicable" niche. Extremely marketable, I know.

    #ScribesAndMakers What's the lowest number of readers/viewers/users of your creative work that you would consider cause for celebration?

    Been finding that one thoughtful comment about how my work touched them is incomparable to any amount of numbers, to be honest.

    #WritingGames #AmWriting

  23. CW: writing games

    #WritersCoffeeClub What's your niche?

    Definitely the "once fully explained, becomes even more bizarre and inexplicable" niche. Extremely marketable, I know.

    #ScribesAndMakers What's the lowest number of readers/viewers/users of your creative work that you would consider cause for celebration?

    Been finding that one thoughtful comment about how my work touched them is incomparable to any amount of numbers, to be honest.

    #WritingGames #AmWriting

  24. New interview with Clockwork, creator of The Network, a collaborative writing game inspired by the Dollhouse TV series.

    I especially like Clockwork's advice for choosing which stories to run for players:

    writing-games.org/the-network-

    #TextGames #WritingGames #GameCreators

  25. #WritingCommunity: Did you fall off the writing wagon sometime in the last 3 years? Do you feel like your words have run out or that your writing brain/muse has abandoned you?

    We gotchu.

    The Fun and (Writing) Games Salon is a space for you to create without pressure & feel joyful about writing again.

    Join Us!
    patreon.com/funandwritinggames

    #WritingGames #CreativeGames #AuthorLife #AmWriting

  26. #WritingCommunity: Did you fall off the writing wagon sometime in the last 3 years? Do you feel like your words have run out or that your writing brain/muse has abandoned you?

    We gotchu.

    The Fun and (Writing) Games Salon is a space for you to create without pressure & feel joyful about writing again.

    Join Us!
    patreon.com/funandwritinggames

    #WritingGames #CreativeGames #AuthorLife #AmWriting

  27. #WritingCommunity: Did you fall off the writing wagon sometime in the last 3 years? Do you feel like your words have run out or that your writing brain/muse has abandoned you?

    We gotchu.

    The Fun and (Writing) Games Salon is a space for you to create without pressure & feel joyful about writing again.

    Join Us!
    patreon.com/funandwritinggames

    #WritingGames #CreativeGames #AuthorLife #AmWriting

  28. #WritingCommunity: Did you fall off the writing wagon sometime in the last 3 years? Do you feel like your words have run out or that your writing brain/muse has abandoned you?

    We gotchu.

    The Fun and (Writing) Games Salon is a space for you to create without pressure & feel joyful about writing again.

    Join Us!
    patreon.com/funandwritinggames

    #WritingGames #CreativeGames #AuthorLife #AmWriting

  29. #WritingCommunity, want a fun and free way to get your creative juices flowing? Play the Picture Game over on Tumblr. It's simple:

    ▪ Pick an image that grabs you
    ▪ Set a timer for 10 or 15 minutes (or a word goal)
    ▪ Write anything you're inspired to write.
    ▪ Keep your fingers moving until the timer goes off or you reach your goal!

    A new image goes up every day.

    picturegame.tumblr.com/

    #WritingGames #CreativeGames #AuthorLife #AmWriting

  30. #WritingCommunity, want a fun and free way to get your creative juices flowing? Play the Picture Game over on Tumblr. It's simple:

    ▪ Pick an image that grabs you
    ▪ Set a timer for 10 or 15 minutes (or a word goal)
    ▪ Write anything you're inspired to write.
    ▪ Keep your fingers moving until the timer goes off or you reach your goal!

    A new image goes up every day.

    picturegame.tumblr.com/

    #WritingGames #CreativeGames #AuthorLife #AmWriting

  31. #WritingCommunity, want a fun and free way to get your creative juices flowing? Play the Picture Game over on Tumblr. It's simple:

    ▪ Pick an image that grabs you
    ▪ Set a timer for 10 or 15 minutes (or a word goal)
    ▪ Write anything you're inspired to write.
    ▪ Keep your fingers moving until the timer goes off or you reach your goal!

    A new image goes up every day.

    picturegame.tumblr.com/

    #WritingGames #CreativeGames #AuthorLife #AmWriting

  32. #WritingCommunity, want a fun and free way to get your creative juices flowing? Play the Picture Game over on Tumblr. It's simple:

    ▪ Pick an image that grabs you
    ▪ Set a timer for 10 or 15 minutes (or a word goal)
    ▪ Write anything you're inspired to write.
    ▪ Keep your fingers moving until the timer goes off or you reach your goal!

    A new image goes up every day.

    picturegame.tumblr.com/

    #WritingGames #CreativeGames #AuthorLife #AmWriting

  33. PURPLE PROSE MONDAY is now a thing. I decided just now. #PurpleProseMonday

    Search your manuscript for the words "like a" and post THREE SIMILES you wrote in your manuscript.

    I'll start.

    1) Wind from the Deep beckoned the Dwarrow down like a hand tugging on cloak hems.

    2) Esor could not retreat into his robes like a turtle into his shell, but he made a marvelous effort at stuffing his chin behind his cravat.

    3) Ilare quietly sang, "I have been so lonely," whispering from her like a brook rippling between stones.

    Get purple with me! Post a simile or three, like a child pinning the tail on the donkey! #WritingCommunity #amWriting #Writing #writingFiction #simile #WritingGames