WRITE: EDU:Writing Workshop:
Places tell stories
Ideation
A plan is described for Writing Workshops in virtual worlds. An initial implementation is being developed in the Hypergrid worlds. The plan could be adapted for web-worlds.
Fantasy Island for writers
- The best way to get a good idea is to have lots of ideas to choose from.
- Ideation (creative process)
- Mondays: We gather at Greyville, on Nara's Nook, at 6 PM Pacific Time
- HG address:
- world.narasnook.com:8900:Greyville
- Put the HG address in the Find bar of the World Map. Click Find, TP
- Recent exercises came from The 90-day novel
- Nara's Nook Virtual Writer's Colony
- Virtual Writers' Community
- Current activity: Writer's Workshop development
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More after the break
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Metaverse events, recent and upcoming
- Events on the Hypergrid: HYPEvents
- Hypergrid Destinations
- IMA Social Web and Virtual World Events, Music, and Meeting Calendar
- HYPERGRID EVENTS
- OpenSimWorld Events
- Entertainment on the Hypergrid
- Opensim AAM Virtual Performers
- Promotion for virtual worlds and everything in 'em
- Selby's daily events and news collection: Virtual worlds are real
- Comedy Videos from the virtual worlds
- Web-world videos
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- Search this blog with the search bar, upper left.
- OSCC 2017 PresentationsMal Burns: Inworld Review
- Hypergrid Writer's Community
- Metaverse Jobs; Job Listings
- IMA projects
- 3D web-worlds of the browser (G+ community)
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- Virtual Outworlding news collection
- Destination guide: OpenSimWorld
- Hyperica, Directory of Opensimulator hypergrid destinations
- WELCOME TO SEANCHAI LIBRARIES
- Hypergrid-related articles in this blog
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Backstory
- Writing groups upload free OARS, creating a fictional world.
- They use these worlds for practice of specific writing skills.
- For scene development, they will use role playing in the environment.
- For plot development, they will find idea packages and develop plots.
- For character development, they will choose characters and enact them in role play.
- Nara's Nook Virtual Writer's Colony will start the workshops.
- They will add exercises and suggestions to stimulate ideas for visitors.
Working the workshop
- On close inspection, some objects will have floating text.
- A click on one of these may give you an idea to work on.
With a group
- Gather a group of people interested in practicing the skills of writing.
- Bring them in and give them an exercise.
By yourself
- If you find an exercise that suits you, do part 1.
- Try to get a few friends to join you in doing part 2
- Or you can do it yourself if you want.
- If you find a story idea interesting develop it a bit to see where it goes.
Exercise 1 on a new world (RP) Ideation
- You are a group of investigators studying this world (think of Myst).
Part 1 (individual) answer these questions in your notes
- How did this place come to be?
- What characters played a major role in creating this place?
- What characters were here?
- What was the regular pattern of life here?
- What might have happened to disrupt it?
- What new character might have appeared and disrupted the regular pattern?
Part 2.Gather and share notes (in voice)
- Each player presents answers
- The group responds, asking questions or offering suggestions
- Facilitator keeps and posts a record of final results.
Fantasy Island for writers
Character exercise 1
Individual
- On the central Island: Linda Kellie clothing and avatars.
- All free and public domain.
- Use the red and green wedges to scroll the contents.
- Put on an avatar or clothing. Begin to develop a character to fit your appearance.
- What are your main activities? What is your most important activity?
- How would characters who know you describe you?
- What other character here is most important to you?
- What is your main goal right now. Skip the shot-term goals.
- Cite a goal that could your life. Something hard to get but worth the effort.
- What other characters are involved in that goal?
- What other character is standing in the way of that goal?
- What circumstances are standing in the way of that goal?
Group (in voice)
- Everyone comes in costume and in character.
- The task: each player tells about his/her character, playing that character.
- The initial presentation comes from the individual exercise.
- In a second part of the exercise:
- The group asks questions, each player answers questions in character.
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Character exercise 2 on a new world (RP): ideation
- Your task is to develop characters to fit into this world.
- Part 1 (individual) Develop a character you would like to see in this world.
- Recall the exercises from The 90 Day Novel
- The character does not have to be human.
- Describe the physical appearance of the character.
- Where does this character regularly stay in this world?
- What does this character regularly do in this world?
- Imagine yourself in the role of this character.
- What are two things you most want?
- What are your main goals when you start the day?
- What are your main fears during the day?
- What are your goals for the future?
- What are your fears for the future?
Part 2 (group) Gather and share notes (in voice)
- Players enact the role of the character they just described.
- One at a time, they go to their favored location, with others following.
- In character, players try to find out about the host character.
- Players try to find out how they (their character) might interact with the host character).
- Players put notes in chat (OOC) about their observations.
- Facilitator keeps and posts the chat notes.
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The door in the tree-trunk
House exercise 1 (In character)
Individual
- Has someone been living here?
- Was it you? A friend of yours? A character you never met?
- Is the door unlocked? What does does the inside tell you?
- What usually happens here?
- Have you ever been here before?
- Do you have a good or bad feeling about this place?
- Why is this place where it is?
- (Save your notes.)
Group (in voice and in character)
- Each character gives his or her answers to the questions above.
- When characters have answers that fit together, they move to stand next to each other.
- When characters have answers that don't fit together, they move farther apart.
- Subgroup: confer privately with others whose answers fit with yours.
- (Make notes on the subgroup conference.)
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