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[thephilosophyofsuns]

Nothing is stopping you from writing fanfiction for college assignments

I have a class where I have to write creative assignments all the time, and let's be honest, I don't always have the motivation to write something super original.

My solution? Write fanfiction and change names and specific details. And you know what? Most college teachers won't even know.

I definitely just wrote a shortened version of a MHA Vigilante!Izuku Dadzawa fanfic and changed names and ages and genders.

I've done it before, and you know what? I got full credit. She didn't even notice.

In conclusion, work smarter not harder. This way, you still practice your writing skills, you practice plot conventions, and you don't have to world build. Plus, if your teacher does notice, you can be like:

So, yeah. Write fanfiction, do crime.

[authorksc]

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Book Clubs

December 19, 2023|Blogging

I remember being in a book club in my teens, but how are they different now and why join one? Well, there is a list of reasons, one is all the books you get to read. You may meet like-minded people, and You get to share great books with others. Being in a book club will encourage you to read more. These days book clubs are run by libraries, private individuals, and even celebrities. They can even be on social media as opposed to meeting in person. The choice is yours, just remember, "Enjoy the Write!" KSCarson

[therumpus]

The Writer's Welcome Kit

Are you a beginning writer who would like guidance on establishing a dedicated writing practice OR any writer who wants to commit to an intentional routine, this course was built for you? We've just launched The Writer's Welcome Kit (created by Paulette Perhach) a 5-week self-paced course to help writers establish their writing practice. The course includes 51 lessons & projects as well as additional contributions on best practices, resources, & insights from our team. This online course is packed with lessons and exercises on the life, craft, and the practice of writing. ⚡️As a limited time BONUS offer to anyone who signs up by May 21, you'll be able to join a free online accountability classes offered on Wednesday evenings in May/June. See details below!⚡️ These live Zoom meetups will include drop-in visits from Rumpus Poetry Editor, Carolina Ebeid, Fiction Editor, Reena Shah, and Editor-in-Chief, Aram Mrjoian. These editors will share insights into their personal writing practice and what they look for as editors for the magazine. This accountability bonus offer won't be available on an ongoing basis, so sign up by May 21 if you're interested in this 2 for 1 deal. Ready to start? https://therumpus.net/writers-welcome-kit/

[in-the-stacks]

On Storytelling #194: Work As Reflection

Working remotely is ideal for when you need to be in deep concentration and reflection and other tips to #createeveryday virtually anywhere #writing #virtualwork #globalnomad #creative #creativelifestyle

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[kweiss01]

My cozy mystery comedy writing class is April 16th and it's free!

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[shreyat01]

Content Writing Workshop for Professional Writers

Sign up for our intensive Content Writing Workshop designed to enhance your writing skills and help you become a content marketing expert.

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[eslandwritingandliterature-blog]

Speech Making and Verbal Presentation Classes

Do you find yourself panicking as you think about delivering that speech or presentation for school or work?

Well, know that you’re not the only one!!! According to recently, published research from sources like https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/smashing-the-brainblocks/201711/why-are-we-scared-public-speaking and https://www.psycom.net/?s=public+speaking, approximately 75% of Americans also feel this way!

You don’t have to face your angst alone! Conquer your debilitating anxiety through a specific method of learning called deliberate practice. Our team analyzes, discusses, and designs the classes for you to get the rehearsal time needed to overcome whatever is holding you back from reaching your audience when you give that talk.

In addition to gaining more confidence, you will learn how to be understood through the correct use of pronunciation, grammar, intonation, vocabulary, and the most effectual phrases to add power to your messages. All of these are crucial in helping you connect with your listeners. Contact us for a complimentary consultation!

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[haloquin]

No students today so I've been sitting editing and writing more poetry! Really have to get better at marketing... #poetry #art #writer #amwriting #everydayadventuring #pagan #witchesofinstagram #dragonfly #Bard #writingclasses #aberystwyth #ADHDwhatme https://www.instagram.com/p/BxM1xKpH7-T/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13knllwkzlptg

[luckoflegends]

I wanted to share some thoughts in answer to some questions posed by a game designer about the principles that went into Starsworn, my coloring book, choose-your-own-adventure RPG for all ages - up now on Kickstarter with only a day to go!

If you'd prefer audio, you can listen to a podcast interview or watch a presentation on my approach in my classes (game-based, online writing classes for kids on holiday break are up now at Luck Of Legends).

With that said, here are some of the principles and concepts that have gone into the making of Starsworn, and some of the next steps I'm excited to take in the near future.

If you're interested and have a few minutes, read on!

Q: Who is this intended for? Why?

As a parent and teacher, I’ve been thrilled and amazed at how much kids develop learning with story games; I’ve had individual kids go from a sentence or two to hundred-page novels, and my own son now dashes off stories at a lexile level four grades higher than his own.

But weirdly, most role-playing games are technical texts - unlike video games, where you play to learn, they require you to invest time and energy in understanding how the game works before you have any “fun.” Worse, they require a lot of “invisible” skills - much like a teacher telling a student to “write a paper,” games assume all sorts of story-telling and collaborative knowledge that they don’t teach.

Starsworn is my answer to bridging that gap. It’s designed to help novices - especially teachers, parents, and kids of varying ages - leverage the awesome power of role-playing to create stories together.

Q: What’s your background? How did that contribute to the design of the game?

I’ve been teaching for more than 20 years, and making games for longer. Game design and curriculum design share a lot of common factors - you have to think about your user, how to engage their interest, how to make the unit or game build from simpler to more complex skills. Curriculum design requires you to be very conscious of where your students are; game designers are often creating for people who are already experts, so they sometimes forget to think about people outside their audience.

Running a game and running a lesson share a lot in common, too - both require you to listen, pay attention to the needs and wants of your group, ask questions, invite collaboration, adjust and attend to everyone in the room. In my classes, I use my storytelling skills, adopting voices, describing things dramatically, and engaging everyone in the shared moment. In games, I use my teacher skills, noticing who needs an excuse to engage, echoing and amplifying players who are quieter, checking in with everyone to make sure the story is one we’re all happy with.

I guess the simplest way to put it is that teaching made me a better storyteller, and storytelling games made me a better teacher!

Q: What design considerations did you need to keep in mind with this game?

Starsworn was built for several goals: first, to be a zero prep game. Story-telling - make-believe! - is one the first and most natural games. Kids don’t need to be “taught” to role-play: stick them in a room, and they’ll be dragons and ninjas and superheroes in minutes!

Adults, however, need to re-learn, and the best games help both those who struggle with make-believe AND those who want to tell better stories. Everyone knows how intimidating a blank page can be; I wanted a game that helped people get started and keep their momentum without any need for planning, pre-reading, or prep.

To that end, I used familiar game elements - coloring books and choose-your-own-adventure stories - to introduce mechanics that help make collective narratives flow and teach players to work together on engaging story arcs. The goal was each page would be simple, clear, and help you play.

Game elements are introduced gradually, working from easier, more intuitive steps like describing a character using descriptive lines, like in a story, to using those lines to form a dice pool, to more complex mechanics that help build drama and create story outlines, like Scene structure or Drama Clocks.

I always try to build for what I call “emergent complexity”; a well-built game should be easy to learn, but have depth that you are able to explore as you continue to play. A favorite example (and the best designed game I can think of!) is LEGO: the way the parts fit is intuitive, but the ways in which you can use them are almost limitless!

A final - but crucial! - design element has been provided by the cast of Stories Podcast, the largest and longest-running kid’s story pod on the web: Starsworn has its own episodes, where the cast of the pod plays through a game and plotline that runs parallel to the book! This lets kids and parents hear how a game works - how to ask and answer questions, come up with ideas, and collaborate on how to tell stories together.

Q: Why an educational RPG? What design elements make it different from hobbyist RPGs?

I like to draw a distinction between games that are “used” to teach, and games that are “designed” to teach. Any game CAN teach, but using a game to teach takes time, effort, and deep understanding. A game designed to teach, instead of having skill-building elements implied or “added” afterward, has them built into the basic mechanics, requiring less mastery of the players and supporting them in learning as they play.

In Starsworn, there are several elements of design that help build specific skills that develop story-telling, writing, and literacy.

First, character design. Characters are defined by sentences, but each tied to an element that has narrative importance: their Goal - something that motivates them or that they’re searching for, Skills that they can use to deal with problems, a Flaw that they struggle with. By thinking of characters in terms of what makes them interesting and how they might interact in a scene, players develop a sense that - according to not just students, but educators I’ve worked with like Karyn Keene, head of Ready, Study, Go academic enrichment programs - transfers to analysis. Kids who’ve had class with me are able to define book characters using these traits - identify what someone's Traits are, or their Quirks. The focus isn’t on “power,” but on what makes a character narratively interesting: what makes us want to read a story about them.

Scene structure introduces a basic approach to outlining. Scenes start with a read-aloud that “hooks” the audience - something that describes a setting and provides some drama to spark curiosity. Next, it provides a list of questions to help people “explore the scene” - anything from “who’s upset by this?” to “what’s wrong here?” The goal is to give a quick set of prompts to help people start collaborating on adding detail and drama to the story together.

When someone decides their character wants to change what’s happening with a risky act, there’s a list of ideas for Moves they can make - anything from “calm the crowd” to “climb up to rescue the kid,” for example. They can, of course, come up with any idea they like - there’s no rigid definition of how a problem can be solved. The outcomes are Triumphs and Troubles - again, a sample list with an invitation to discuss and collaborate to decide the outcome.

These Scenes eventually give way to draft sheets and invitations to players to create their own, using the hook, setting up questions for exploring the scene, Moves to make, and Triumphs and Troubles that might result. The goal is to get players used to thinking like authors - figuring out how to introduce a scene, develop it by thinking about what questions need answers, increasing drama with risky actions from characters, and resolving it by thinking through troubling and triumphant outcomes.

As the game progresses, it introduces more complex tools, and there are multiple points where players, once they’ve mastered the basics, are invited to go “off road” - to create their own tales. The goal, as with all learning, is to help build them up into independent learners - people who can use the structure provided or create their own to keep playing and writing together!

Q: Is there anything you would like readers to know concerning this game, its future, and its release?

We have a LOT of ideas for how to continue the adventures and build out the game, and this Kickstarter is part of building the momentum for those expansions. Not only are we working on a new chapter, we’re beginning a dedicated podcast for StoriesRPG, where I’ll be running games for Daniel Hinds and the cast of Stories Podcast to give families another way to listen, learn, and fall in love with the story-telling experience of role-playing. These podcasts will, just like Starsworn, have play-at-home adventures for a parallel plotline, so listeners can create their own tales in the same world - or build their own!

I'm also hoping to release video courses to help educators, parents, and anyone who wants to use games to help people learn to write - it's not just a craft, but an art, and a lot of it requires practice.

[in-the-stacks]

On Storytelling #196: Story Thread Example

I describe a story thread in one of my own novels and other tips to #createeveryday virtually anywhere #writing #virtualwork #globalnomad #creative #creativelifestyle

[randomnessofme]

#writingclasses #writingtips #writing #writerslife #WriterWednesday Got a #literary reading coming up? Take my class and wow the crowd. Registration link in bio...

[pinehillcommunitycenter]

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[adaminischool-blog]

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