What Game Programming Taught Me About Writing
by Brand Gamblin
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When I got out of college, I achieved my lifelong ambition to become a video game programmer. I’d been playing games my whole life, and never once doubted my calling. I wanted to create characters that people could relate to, and worlds that they’d want to play in. I had all kinds of ideas for novel gameplay and exciting stories.
The more I worked with games though, the more I realized that …

Five Things That Are Harder To Overdo Than You Think
by Cat Rambo
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One of the things writers do best is second-guess themselves. We keep tweaking, twiddling, moving this word here, that word there, changing from present tense to past and back again. But there are aspects of writing that we may restrain ourselves from unnecessarily, because we think we’re overdoing them when we’re not.
Getting inside your character’s head: It’s okay to spend some time in there, even within the constraints …