Vega and Dan discuss interactive fiction and text based games.
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Resources Mentioned:
Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
Twinery
Choice Script
Inkle Writer
Texture Writer
StoryNexus
Colossal Cave Adventure
Zork
Fallen London
Failbetter Games: Retrospective
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J.R. asks: “How do you keep track of your worldbuilding?”
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Ian asks: “Would studying rhetoric help with pacing and craft in fiction?”
Resources Mentioned:
Aristotle
The World’s Last Night: And Other Essays (CS Lewis)
Monsters and Critics and Other Essays (JRR Tolkien)
Shakespeare
John Milton
Edward Allen Poe
Raymond Chandler
Hume: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. A Treatise of Human Nature, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
The Portable Nietzsche
Book of Proverbs
John Steinbeck
John D McDonald
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Blake
Percy Blythe Shelley
Mary Shelley
Lord Byron
Mary Wollstonecraft
Essays of EB White
Mark Twain Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches and Essays
Cicero: Selected Works
Speeches That Changed The World
Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Phy asks: “How do you know what projects to work on now… and what do work on later?”
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Caine asks: “How emotionally invested do we really need to be to write great fiction?”
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Chuck asks: “Military satire doesn’t seem fashionable these days… is it okay to write it?”
Resources Mentioned
Catch 22
Slaughterhouse 5
MASH film and the television series
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Tammy asks: “Is it possible to write a story where the POV character/narrator is the antagonist? What would that look like?”
Resources Mentioned
Stephen R Donaldson
Sherlock Holmes
Lolita
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Phy asks: “Do you get ideas in the middle of the night? And what do you with them?”
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Ian asks: “What about tone in writing?”
Resources Mentioned:
Bach
Carl Orff
Mozart
Shakespeare
Milton
Homer
Tolkien
Parasol Protectorate
Crudrat
PG Wodehouse
Douglas Adams
Oscar Wilde
The Shining
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Today, Phy asks: “How do you deal with procrastination?”
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