Thursday, November 10, 2011
Gaming Writing exercise
So a friend and I are playing a table top role playing game based on the Harry Dresden books.
Just the two of us. For now he is doing the bulk of the GMing (Game master --story teller) and with some time I hope to take a turn. I just want to get more familiar with the system and flesh out the NPC (non player characters).
I really like the Dresden system and the story arc we have wanted to run fits into it wonderfully.
As a way to keep me (and the GM) from forgetting what happens I decided it would be kind of fun to have my character right up a session summary in the form of a journal instead of taking game notes like I normally do.
This does two things. The first is that it gives me a non work-in-progress related piece of writing to work on that is fun. It gives me a bit of variety. An added bonus is that because the journal is from my character's perspective, I get to show the GM what she thinks is going on.
Secondly I get to practice writing in first person since 99% of my writing is in third person.
I thought it was going to be harder then it was. So far it has been pretty easy. Now of course this time I went for a narrative style so I didn't have to worry about dialogue and describing movement etc.
I think the only reason I am not starting off describing everything is because that will take a lot more time to write and eventually I will be back to work. Being back to work means less time to write.
As it was in the two bouts I took to write the initial summary came out to 1787 words.
I think next time I might try to include some of the dialogue.
:D
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