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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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Feb 16, 20237 min read
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Paulson’s Peak — A Masterclass in Gamebook Writing!
An inventive addition to the gamebook collection
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Nov 20, 20213 min read
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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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Jul 21, 20202 min read
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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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Jun 7, 20204 min read
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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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Mar 15, 20202 min read
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Choose Your Own Writing Strategy - Tip #5
I must confess - I have a particular bugbear with repetition.
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Jan 15, 20202 min read
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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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Dec 16, 20193 min read
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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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Nov 17, 20193 min read
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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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Nov 7, 20192 min read
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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.
victoriaannehancox
Oct 22, 20193 min read
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Creature of Havoc
Is it a sign of brainwashing that I think all gamebooks should have precisely 400 sections?
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Oct 11, 20193 min read
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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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Oct 7, 20197 min read
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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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Sep 15, 20193 min read
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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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Sep 1, 20193 min read
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Choose Your Own Writing Strategy - Tip #1
Let’s be honest, it’s not rocket science!
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Aug 26, 20192 min read
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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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Aug 18, 20194 min read
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The Citadel of Curtains?
Note to self: don’t ask for help when trapped in a pit.
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Aug 7, 20194 min read
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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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Jul 26, 20193 min read
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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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Jul 26, 20191 min read
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