Tag: narrative design
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Make it Messy: Plot Writing and Perfectionism
(Cover Photo: Credit to EPierce Photography.) I’m a perfectionist, this is no secret. Anal retentive, deadline and checklist oriented, I’m sure my story staff is already going half insane with my project managing habits in Dead Legends. This comes as little surprise, as my early creative endeavors were all as a director and actress in…
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Negotiating for Drama: Consent Driven Narrative Roleplay
(Featured photo by Miguel Espino.) Nearly every event I play these days has some form of consent negotiations built into the system. Whether they are mandatory or a way for players to check in on the emotional safety of other players, the American LARP world at large is waking up to the fact that high…
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Storyteller Guidelines and Recommendations
As most of you know, I was hired as the Head Writer for Dead Legends LARP earlier this summer. We’re going into our third season and, while head writer means that I’m handling a lot of plot work, it also means that I’m doing most of our story staff management and training. Therefore, I put…
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The Road to Emotionally Compelling Roleplay…
In the past months, I had a few people express to be the fact that they are bored with their game, can’t figure out how to sink their teeth into the meat of things, or feel slightly on the outside of the story going by. They ask me how I consistently manage to get into…
The Space Between Stories 