Writers of Greyville: Story seeds:
The last werewolf of Blanken, part 1
Virtual worlds offer a unique opportunity to use the environment and character appearance as supports for ideation in a writers workshop. Here I report on a developing plan to do just that the virtual worlds of OpenSimulator.
Murky Mansion
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.
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Ideation
Ideation is the creative process of generating, developing, and communicating new ideas, where an idea is understood as a basic element of thought that can be either visual, concrete, or abstract.[1] Ideation comprises all stages of a thought cycle, from innovation, to development, to actualization.[2] Ideation can be conducted by individuals, organizations, or crowds. As such, it is an essential part of the design process, both in education and practice.[3]
Werewolf
In folklore, a werewolf (Old English: werwulf, "man-wolf") or occasionally lycanthrope /ˈlaɪkənˌθroʊp/ (Greek: λυκάνθρωποςlukánthrōpos, "wolf-person") is a human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf (or, especially in modern film, a therianthropichybrid wolflike creature), either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (often a bite or scratch from another werewolf). -- Wikipedia
Note 1 from Father Dark
The fountain in front of Murky Mansion
The note says:
- A coward's mission. But I will be free of this curse, as will Blanken.
- The winged virgin told me of a more benign way.
- By a flower that blooms in Fantasy Place.
- And she told me of a gate here, on this island, to Fantasy Place.
- But I cannot find it
- And I cannot live with this curse any longer.
- Eric can release me the hard way.
- He does not know me yet, but the full moon comes soon.
- He will know me then. And he will come. I will not hide.
- (Inciting incident: the hook)
Note 1 from Eric
The living room of Murky Mansion
The note says:
- Friday
- My dearest brother, I am called to Blanken on my destined service.
- They have seen another at the churchyard and I must do my duty.
- I am loathe to leave you on this night of the howler's moon, but I must.
- This "gift" of mine is also a curse. But it is what it is and I must live it.
- I hope to return Sunday with news that Blanken is cleansed.
- Eric
- (Exposition)
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
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.
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