Writers of Greyville: Story seeds:
The last werewolf of Blanken, part 2
Virtual worlds offer a unique opportunity to use the environment and character appearance as supports for ideation in a writers workshop. Here I offer a second report on a developing plan to do that the Virtual worlds of OpenSimulator.
Murky Manor
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- The full moon has come and gone.
- I have done a terrible thing.
- Oh, Eric, why did you seek me in Blanken,
- when you could have found me here?
- You will return on the morrow and find me.
- You will release me from this curse,
- but find a more terrible curse.
- I had another vision of the flying virgin saying.
- "The path to Fantasy Place starts with baptism under the Beluae."
- I pray that you understand it before the next howler moon.
Note 2 from Eric
- Sunday noon Field notes of the hunt
- I return from Blanken with no blood on my silver dagger.
- I could sense no werewolf even at the midnight of the full moon.
- Usually I can sense them for a few days before and after the time of change.
- Have I lost my powers or is Blanken free of werewolves?
- Perhaps I will never know.
Note 3 from Eric
- Sunday evening Field notes of the new hunt here!
- I know now!
- There is a werewolf here! In the wetlands, I think.
- And he has recently struck--two nights ago, at the recent full moon.
- He is in human form now, and easily removed.
- I will not alarm by brother--the werewolf is no threat till the next howler moon.
- And I am off with my silver blade. I can sense him clearly now.
- I will dispose of him in a few minutes.
Werewolf
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Writer's workshop notes
Writers workshop: The plan this far
- The Monday night writers group of Nara's Nook is developing workshops.
- These would be for people interested in developing their writing skills.
- The initial project aims at developing ideation skills and confidence in them.
- Method: Present a virtual environment and challenges calling for ideation about stories.
- We presently have 2 places to work with: Fantasy Place and Gloomy Manor
- Both have now been salted with challenges based on the local environment.
- Gloomy Manor also has story seeds in the form of notes.
- The notes, on click, give notecards with pieces of a story.
- A visitor can collect the notecards and develop possible scenarios that fit the notes.
- The story is not yet finished and is not an important part of the exercise.
- A visitor can develop alternative scenarios from ideas that come from the notecards.
- Virtual Writers' Community
- Writing Workshop: Places tell stories: Ideation
- Writing Workshop 2: For every place there is a story: Ideation
- Writers of Greyville: Story seeds: The last werewolf of Blanken, Part 1
- Writer's workshop in your browser: Virtual field trip
Meeting place/time for the Greyville Monday Writers
- 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
- Everyone is welcome
- 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
- Everyone is welcome
Original OARS with links
Future plans
- These worlds are not open to the public as yet because they are still in development.
- They will be publicly available later, probably at Nara's Nook.
- This workshop plan seems suitable for web-worlds.
- Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
- We expect to try rendering the current story in a web-world soon.
Web-world places (under development)
- 3Dwebworldz
- You don't need to register--enter as Guest.
- Click on MENU & INFO (Lower right)
- Scroll down--Toward the end of the public regions, find Writers Swamp.
- Click Writers Swamp to go there.
- (There is no direct link to Fantasy Place. Getting there is part of the story.)
- Notecard givers and other things may not be operating yet.
- In the future, we may have group workshops there.
- The writers may be there on Mondays shortly after 6 pm Pacific time
- Anyone is welcome.
- 3Dwebworldz
- You don't need to register--enter as Guest.
- Click on MENU & INFO (Lower right)
- Scroll down--Toward the end of the public regions, find Writers Swamp.
- Click Writers Swamp to go there.
- (There is no direct link to Fantasy Place. Getting there is part of the story.)
- Notecard givers and other things may not be operating yet.
- In the future, we may have group workshops there.
- The writers may be there on Mondays shortly after 6 pm Pacific time
- Anyone is welcome.
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