Marona Shrike returned from her first job with the severed right hand of a billionaire. Unceremoniously she threw it on the bounty table of the assassin’s...
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FFF25 Day 3 – Truth
“Well?” he asked. “What do you think?” Martineus’s eyes darted back to the page, scanning for something – anything – to like about the script in...
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It was the tenth rejection to come by paper bird that day. Thavma sat in her ex-boyfriend’s (ex-ex boyfriend? Too soon to tell) studio apartment and...
Continue reading...Flash Fiction February 2025 Day 1 – RAGE
cw for sexual harassment On Staccato’s first day playing the Salted Slug tavern, a man placed his hand on the small of her back on his...
Continue reading...The LICHES Method of Boxed Text Descriptions
A while back a friend asked me to write up some pointers for how I write descriptive text, or “boxed text.” You know, for dungeons and...
Continue reading...Reel In Your Players With Motivation and Incentive
This is a blog post about player motivation. But first, I want to talk about project management. When I was in college for computer science, I...
Continue reading...Adapting Narrative Design Patterns for Tabletop Adventure Writing
I’ve been thinking a lot about the shapes of stories, especially as IF and video game narrative designers have been mapping them for years. What does...
Continue reading...A Chrono Comparison: On Writing Story Goals
Chrono Trigger is one of the greatest video game stories ever told. This is why every few years, I try to play its sequel, Chrono Cross....
Continue reading...Day 20 – Job
“It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.” For the sixth time today, Amrita’s focus spirit was cleaning the toilets. She watched as...
Continue reading...Day 19 – Darkness
“Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.” Amber had been...
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