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
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.
- 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
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.
I haven't logged in to SL for a while now but a few years back, as Jack Lefebvre, I was a regular visitor. I was already a published writer but the interactions with others there and the insights the whole online role-playing experience provided gave me lots of new material for my stories and novels. The writing communities are vibrant, supportive and genuinely encourage creativity. Whether you're a newbie or a seasoned hack, you'll find it a stimulating place to be.
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