2019 WRITE: The writing communities of the virtual worlds. What do they offer to writers?

The writing community of the virtual worlds.
What does it offer to writers? 
Updated 4/11/2020

Articles of interest to writers and aspiring writers in the virtual worlds

• Workshops for writers
• A community of writers
• A community of potential readers
• A community of bloggers
• A community of videographers
• A community of educators
• A community of ideators

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Workshops for writers

• Would you use a virtual world to teach creative writing? Imaginary worlds are another kind of virtual worlds
• Confluence1: A conversation with Aeschylus. Space travel, time travel in the MUVEs
• Writer's workshops in the virtual worlds (MUVEs). Some as near as your browser. Summary
• Seanchai WestWorld: a place for storytellers. Can I find a story here?
• The story at Fantasy Place: quest for the wolfbane flower Part 3, Oberon, Puck, and Wolfbane
• Web Writers Workshop, the writers group that meets in your browser.
• The pecan pie murder. A 3D story in first draft for the writer's workshop
• The last werewolf in Blanken" A writer's workshop in 3D
• Exercises for a 3D writers workshop: place and characters
• Writers of Nara's Nook: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, Part 4
• An interactive, social 3D writer's workshop in a browser. And how to mix workshop with interactive fiction.
• Writer's 3D online workshop: Meet in your browser. Meet in a story scene. Working together apart
• Tutorial: How to put an interactive story in a 3D web page on 3DWebWorldz
• Tutorial: Building in 3DWebworldz: Leaving notes around. Writer's workshop
• 3DWebWorldz goes for social media with contact groups: Video tutorial
• Writers of Greyville: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, part 3
• Writers of Greyville: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, part 2
• Writers of Greyville: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, Part 1
• Writing Workshop: Places tell stories: Ideation
• Writing Workshop 2: For every place there is a story: Ideation
• The story at Fantasy Place: quest for the wolfsbane flower Part 2, Titania

A community of ideators

• Greenfield: Saloon, free houses, maze, ships, dance floor, petting zoo, adult. Suitable for writing prompts and RP

A community of writers

• Writer's workshop in your browser: Virtual field trip
• Writers of the Hypergrid. Creative Collaboration
• How writers could use a web-world. Meet in a minute
• Interactive writing: Guide your readers
• Read excerpts
• Read dialogs as scenes.
• Share ideas
• Share promotion methods
• Share social media experiences
• Share contests
• Share writing in the new world.

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• Someday...we should rework the calendar
• Black Friday will be Tuesday, July 11, this year. And Bob keeps up with the times
• Jane, Plain Jane: In eight scenes. A short story as a writing exercise
• My Name Is Jane. Plain Jane. Part 1
• Jane, Plain Jane: Part 2 Pack-man
• Jane, Plain Jane. Part 3 Confused
• Jane, Plain Jane: Part 4: Can't
• Jane, Plain Jane: Part 5, Vomit. A short story as a writing exercise
• Jane, Plain Jane: Part 6 I can't believe it!
• HG Safari, week 119 Nara Nook, the writers colony on the hypergrid
• Nara Nook on the benefits of failure in a virtual world
• The state of writing. Writing community in virtual worlds. Invited article by Jane Watson
• Immersive Edge - An immersive story told in a virtual world. Remember Myst?
• All my boats. Installation art, poetic art by Karima Hoisan
• Salvador Dali and the Future of StoryTelling(R). Dreams of Dalí
• Ever heard of writer's block in role-play? Role-play in virtual worlds as practice writing
• Writing on the grid. The writing community of the Hypergrid
• Writers of the virtual worlds: Author Doug Green. Speculative fiction on the internet
• Literature as oral tradition. Don Quixote, Baker street. Seanchai Library 8th anniversary
• Intersections, and the legacy of Myst, writing linking books in virtual worlds
• The End of One Adventure is the Beginning of the Next for Hypergrid Storytellers
• Immersive Edge, A Hypergrid Story. Storytelling of the future. Teaser 2
• Editors--you want to hire this lady
• Multimedia : Believe: a poem for voice and video
• Myst, white water, waterfalls and line dancing. Storybuilding with linking books
• Report from Starfleet Astarios, July 2015, Stardate redacted
• Decades Festival, a celebration of Historical education
• Tell me a story
• Metaverse Authors (G+ group)
• The writing communities of virtual worlds: Nara's Nook
• Seanchai in Kitely. Stories at the campfire created the first virtual worlds
• Role playing tools, immersive writing, encounter boxes
• SHAKESPEARE system for helping authors by Matthew Mather
• Kickstarter. Storium — The Online Storytelling Game
• How to build a fictional world, Kate Messner
• Top 10 posts in Virtual Outworlding about writing
• EVENTS AT THE BURN2 LITERARY CAMP OCt. 19th - OCT. 27th
• OZLAND Picture Stories writing series on Wednesdays
• Grow a team of comedy writers in SL, make the videos to prove it.
• Virtual Writers Workshop
•  Writers in the (Virtual) Sky 
• Virtual Writers, Inc.
• http://www.writtenword.ning.com
• Inksters
• Written Word: A community of writers, prose and poetry
• The Apple Poetry Magazine ™

A community of creators

• Write on site. The scene as a story prompt. Mystery Manor as a story source
• The End of One Adventure is the Beginning of the Next for Hypergrid Storytellers
• The Whitechapel atrocities, investigation continues. Timeline violation?
• A dark place of dark deeds. Whitechapel, 1888

A community of potential readers

• Seanchai Library: A land of pirates, dragons, krakens, volcanoes, and imagination
• TEA TIME on the Orient Express: Seanchai Library
• Web-worlds as a place for storytelling
• Send G+ communities your blog links. Tell a community about your article
• Writers group for creative collaboration. How does this plan sound?
• Meet and collaborate with other writers.
• Seanchai in Kitely. Stories at the campfire created the first virtual worlds
• Use Second Life as social media
• Promotion: MySL summary 
• Meet and talk to potential readers
• Weekly interactive blog on aging. Read the blog. Chat with the author.
• Gather people interested in your kind of writing
• Book Island
• Send people to your web site from your inworld places
• Show your blog posts inworld:
• Browser on prim, advanced. Videos, calendars 
• Get reactions to plots and stories

A community of bloggers

• Blogging: Starting, building, and promoting your blog about virtual worlds
• Death for dessert: Another workshop model: Detective, compact
• Writing: Create a collaborative blog to market your writing
• Planning for a web report about virtual worlds
• Blog about your work
• Get other bloggers to write about your work
• Cross promote with other bloggers
• Community blogging your virtual world. HGProjects
• How A Simple Blog Led To Writing For Forbes, Mashable, and TechCrunch
• Collaborative fiction blogging in virtual world. Writing need not be lonely
• Blogging in Second Life. How to... Summary
• Browser on prim, advanced. Videos, Calendars

A community of videographers

• Arrivals and Departures, a short story by Judith Cullen (Caledonia Skytower)
• Avatar Repertory Theater presents “North of Boston” by Robert Frost
• Make promotional videos for your writings (for YouTube)
• Get bloggers to embed your promotional videos
• Turn the best parts of your work into video stories
• Video/Machinima in virtual worlds
• Grow a team of comedy writers in SL, make the videos to prove it. 
• Let's grow a comedy series in Second Life 
• Comedy series project Planning 1 and 2 
• Series writing in virtual worlds: plan for a project 
• Space alien seeks employment.  Demo script for series writing project 
• Virtual Stages: Theater, video, acting, directing, script-writing
• "Unmindful." The 19th video collaboration between filmmaker Natascha Randt and poet/creator Karima Hoisan
• The Changes Changes - A Randt & Hoisan Production. Video-poetry

Publications arising from Virtual Worlds

• Awakenings, the stories. One part fiction, one part future
• The web show: a magazine from the virtual worlds
• Notes from a novelist in SL, by Keykey Underwood
• A tale of three kitties  
• Novelist discovered in Second Life
• What Second Life did for Colin Bell

A community of educators

• Learn to use the force of words
• The developing writer's workshop in 3DWebWorldz: Video conversations
• The power of myths: How Stories Shape What We Believe
• EXPLORE The (Virtual) World of John Steinbeck
• Virtual Library and Tacoma Little Theatre Continue Partnership
• Teaching creative writing in a virtual world: How get the world.

The story in the place

• Would you use a virtual world to teach creative writing? Imaginary worlds are another kind of virtual worlds
• Mystery Manor (1), a game of games. Solo solving, group roleplay, scene stories.