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Tag: writing
Whose Sin Is It, Anyway?
Dare You Enter… the Complicated Moral Question of Dracula? Read More …
Beware My Power
Horror should comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. Read More …
Misery Business
“Bloodied and spurned, she swore revenge on the men who wronged her — and all of their kind!” Please, no. Read More …
The Representation Game
How do you balance representation with writing about awful people? Read More …
Katanas and Trenchcoats
You only live forever. Read More …
The Danger Net
Acrobats have safety nets. Writers? We have something else. Read More …
Canon, Setting, and Transmedia
Canon, it’s been observed, is what people argue is true about stories that aren’t. Continuity, similarly, is what’s supposedly consistent in worlds that aren’t. Metaplot is what you call either one when you want to start a fight. I’m faintly offended by the idea of canon in roleplaying games. RPGs are by their nature varying Read More …
Your quest is not your story
Good morning, MMO designers. Nice day, isn’t it? Well, I hope it is where you are. I’m in Atlanta, where we have “southern charm,” a concept best summed up as “the curse the swamp-witch put on us for choosing to build here.” Or, perhaps, these summers are the ghosts of Sherman’s fires. Anyhow, it’s great Read More …
Space Magic
SFX has Terry Pratchett commenting on Doctor Who. Pratchett says he wishes he could hate the show, because it’s not science fiction and it discards Chekhov’s rifle. Unsurprising, really: the Doctor doesn’t much like guns. Pratchett elevates said rifle to a Law of Narrative, which I’m not sure it really is. For all his objection Read More …