or “How I spent my weekend” I spent last weekend producing a LARP experience for the Steampunk Symposium, a steampunk-themed convention held on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA. My contribution ended up being a lot of narrative work and experience design, plus a minor role as an NPC (David Bainbridge of Sotheby’s). For details [...]
The following is a guest post from Tyler Weaver Two types of choice make up the storytelling world of today: The first is the creator’s choice: the choices that we as content creators make to build the world of the story we’re telling. The second is the audience’s choice: limitless, and changeable at the click [...]
My last post touched briefly on a topic I call narrative sequencing, which refers to the order in which an audience experiences the individual pieces of content of a transmedia property. I want to explore that concept a bit more in this post. ***** A few months ago, I woke up in the gutter, feeling [...]
I can’t say for sure when my super first day was. I’ve probably had my super power – if you can call it that – all my life. The day I saw “10191987″ spelled out in my bowl of Cheerios, however, was the day I knew I was different. Okay, to be accurate, October 19, [...]
Last month I wrote my first novel. In a fit of madness, I decided to use NaNoWriMo as the “perfect” way to ensure I didn’t give up halfway through. Adding to the challenges was the fact that November included two back-to-back long weekend trips and a long weekend holiday. The timing could not have been [...]
Day 29 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: just over 3,000 Actual Word Count: 3,045 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +1,378 Total Word Count Score: 50,067 Chapters complete: 21 With a day to spare, I inched my way across the 50,000 work goal and promptly [...]
Day 28 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,500 Actual Word Count: 2,101 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +434 Total Word Count Score: 47,022 Chapters complete: 20 Wrapped up the climax chapter, but I’m still staring down a 3K work final chapter, which feels long. [...]
Day 27 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 3,000 Actual Word Count: 3,435 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +1,768 Total Word Count Score: 44,921 Chapters complete: 19 In to the home stretch. Just started the climax chapter, which leaves a chapter for wrap-up. It won’t [...]
Day 26 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 2,500 Actual Word Count: 2,073 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +406 Total Word Count Score: 41,486 Chapters complete: 18 Just slugging out words at this point and trying to get Mia/Kenji/Sora to the climax location. Planning on [...]
Day 25 stats: Min. Daily Average Word Count: 1,667 Word Count Goal: 3,000 Actual Word Count: 3,203 Daily Word Count Score (words in excess of min daily average): +1,536 Total Word Count Score: 39,413 Chapters complete: 17 Definitely made up some lost ground today. It felt good to get this much writing done, especially as [...]