Gamebooks - What Makes Them Tick?

Choose Your Own Writing Strategy Tip #6: Putting It All Together AKA Where Do I Even Start?

victoriaannehancox

Feb 16, 20237 min read

Choose Your Own Writing Strategy Tip #6: Putting It All Together AKA Where Do I Even Start?

This starts with a disclaimer that the process described here is my way. It’s not necessarily a good way; it’s not even a way I follow...

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Paulson’s Peak — A Masterclass in Gamebook Writing!

victoriaannehancox

Nov 20, 20213 min read

Paulson’s Peak — A Masterclass in Gamebook Writing!

An inventive addition to the gamebook collection

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Choosing the right route? Interactive fiction vs gamebooks The Wandering - a (kind of) review.

victoriaannehancox

Jul 21, 20202 min read

Choosing the right route? Interactive fiction vs gamebooks The Wandering - a (kind of) review.

The Wandering's purpose is to savour the journeys, not necessarily to reach a destination, but is that what I wanted?

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victoriaannehancox

Jun 7, 20204 min read

Behind the Scenes on the NIGHTSHIFT

Believe it or not, there is a method to the madness and most people or objects in Nightshift have been chosen for a reason. Spoilers ahead!

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What's that they say about old dogs and new tricks?

victoriaannehancox

Mar 15, 20202 min read

What's that they say about old dogs and new tricks?

Each person has their own way of working and mine just happens to be the old-fashioned way. Until now...

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Choose Your Own Writing Strategy - Tip #5

victoriaannehancox

Jan 15, 20202 min read

Choose Your Own Writing Strategy - Tip #5

I must confess - I have a particular bugbear with repetition.

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victoriaannehancox

Dec 16, 20193 min read

Appointment with F.E.A.R.

I hated Adam West's Batman, so the Silver Crusader didn't really stand a chance.

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victoriaannehancox

Nov 17, 20193 min read

All About Newsletters

Guest blogger Adam C. Mitchell explains why we really, really should have newsletters in our arsenal for marketing. Delving Deeper into...

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victoriaannehancox

Nov 7, 20192 min read

Choose Your Own Writing Strategy Tip #4

Just as teenagers get fidgety during lessons, gamebook readers will start to get frustrated too.

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Choose Your Own Writing Strategy - Tip #3

victoriaannehancox

Oct 22, 20193 min read

Choose Your Own Writing Strategy - Tip #3

Whether you're a plotter or a panster by nature, gamebooks do need that extra input to keep everything in line.

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victoriaannehancox

Oct 11, 20193 min read

Creature of Havoc

Is it a sign of brainwashing that I think all gamebooks should have precisely 400 sections?

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victoriaannehancox

Oct 7, 20197 min read

Marketing Your Gamebook: Insider Tips

Typing ‘The End’ is absolutely not the end for writers these days. When you’ve finished your book, that’s when the hard work starts –...

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Choose Your Own Writing Strategy - Tip #2

victoriaannehancox

Sep 15, 20193 min read

Choose Your Own Writing Strategy - Tip #2

As well as the game-play elements, important though they are, you have to give them a story. Here’s 5 key questions to bring it to life.

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victoriaannehancox

Sep 1, 20193 min read

All Aboard the Weather Machine

I know it’s going to make me very unpopular but *whispers* I really didn’t like Stormslayer.

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Choose Your Own Writing Strategy - Tip #1

victoriaannehancox

Aug 26, 20192 min read

Choose Your Own Writing Strategy - Tip #1

Let’s be honest, it’s not rocket science!

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Aug 18, 20194 min read

Enter the labyrinth of Fang

Call me a snowflake but I just don’t like the thought of being inside a stomach

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victoriaannehancox

Aug 7, 20194 min read

The Citadel of Curtains?

Note to self: don’t ask for help when trapped in a pit.

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victoriaannehancox

Jul 26, 20193 min read

Meet the Warlock

You’ll probably bump into the Maze Master who gives you what seem to be good instructions. Except when I follow them, I end up in a dead end

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How to write-your-own-adventure! Getting Started With Interactive Gamebooks

victoriaannehancox

Jul 26, 20191 min read

How to write-your-own-adventure! Getting Started With Interactive Gamebooks

This time, I thought I’d do it properly, so I sat there with my pencil and dice and…lasted about three battles, then gave up.

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