2019 WRITE: WW: Writer's workshops in the virtual worlds (MUVEs). Some as near as your browser. Summary

Writer's workshops 
in the virtual worlds (MUVEs). 
Some as near as your browser.  Summary 
Updated 7/2/2019

You can meet writers in your home office (or wherever you use your computer).  You can go to places that invite you to tell a story.  You can join with a group of writers from all over the world.  You can write a short story that gets published in a blog (if you want).

Writer's Circle, Waterstage

• Writers workshops in virtual worlds on your browser
• Writers workshops on installed virtual worlds
• Virtual worlds put writers in a scene.   
• A scene can offer many prompts for a story.
• If the workshop has an associated blog, that can publish stories.
• Why would a workshop not have an associated blog?
• Web Writers Workshop, the writers group that meets in your browser
• The developing writer's workshop in 3DWebWorldz: Video conversations
• Writing on the grid. The writing community of the Hypergrid
• The writing communities of the virtual worlds. What do they offer to writers?

Goals for a web-based workshop

• Usable 24/7
• Access from anywhere.
• Usable to serve a group or one person alone
• Provide a shared scene for a group
• Allow for shared characters.
• Provide a shared scene and shared characters.
• Provide prompts for character and plot development

About writing

• The power of myths: How Stories Shape What We Believe
• Joseph Campbell's hero journey. The journey of life

• #VWEDU update 6/6/2019 Newcomer Notes Freebies

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Writers workshops in virtual worlds

• Writer's workshop in your browser: Virtual field trip
• Working together apart.

Promotion

• Morgan's road by Torn MacAlester. An interview with the author
• Create a collaborative blog to market your writing
• Give your blog article a search description, teaser, or other short promotion
• Create a collaborative blog to market your writing

Stories in the virtual world

Werewolf

• "The last werewolf in Blanken" A writer's workshop in 3D
• Writers of Nara's Nook: 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

Fantasy place

• Writer's workshop: The story at Fantasy Place: Quest for the wolfsbane flower Part 1, Diana
• The story at Fantasy Place: quest for the wolfsbane flower Part 2, Titania
• The story at Fantasy Place: quest for the wolfbane flower Part 3, Oberon, Puck, and Wolfbane

Death for dessert

• Death for dessert: Another workshop model: Detective, compact
• The pecan pie murder. A 3D story in first draft for the writer's workshop

The story in the scene

• Confluence1: A conversation with Aeschylus. Space travel, time travel in the MUVEs
• Seanchai WestWorld: a place for storytellers. Can I find a story here?

Web-worlds: meet in your browser 

• You go to web-worlds in your browser.  No preparation needed
• Writer's 3D online workshop: Meet in your browser. Meet in a story scene 
• Video: Jamie and Selby introduce a 3D writer's workshop on the web
• 3DWebWorldz: You take control

Operating and designed for writers

• 3DWebWorldz 
• 3DWW is social VW. How to start
• CybaLOUNGE
• You can visit either of these as a guest, without registering.
• How to put 3D on your website
• VWMOOC18 August 29th A Visit to A Web-based Virtual World

Plot development in a story scene

• Seanchai WestWorld: a place for storytellers. Can I find a story here?
• Exercises for a 3D writers workshop: place and characters
• Writing Workshop: For every place there is a story: Ideation
• Writing Workshop: Places tell stories: Ideation
• Web Writers Workshop, the writers group that meets in your browser

Engagement plans

• Quests and quizzes support in 3DWebWorldz--the three e's: exercise, engagement, evaluation
• 3DWebWorldz: You take control
• Tutorial: How to put an interactive story in a 3D web page on 3DWebWorldz
• Interactive writing: Guide your readers
• Developing an interactive storytelling capability in CybaLOUNGE, a roadmap for education

Derivative uses

• Interactive Fiction in the Classroom
• Interactive Stories

In your browser

• The developing writer's workshop in 3DWebWorldz: Video conversations
• An interactive, social 3D writer's workshop in a browser. And how to mix workshop with interactive fiction.
• How to put an interactive story in a 3D web page on 3DWebWorldz
• Writer's workshop in your browser: Virtual field trip

Scene: Objectives

• Every scene has objectives, usually several.
• Exposition:  Tell something from the backstory that reader needs to know.
• Character presentation: Characters show aspects of their characters.
• Character growth: the character has a changing experience.
• Mood: something happens that is funny, scary, sad, thrilling.

Online writing communities

• 11 TOP WRITING COMMUNITIES YOU SHOULD JOIN AND WHY
• Top Websites for Writers: 10 Online Writing Communities
• 15 of the Best Online Writing Communities for Aspiring Authors
• #WritingCommunity
• WRITERS HELPING WRITERS®

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Visit me on the web

• Drop by my web offices Weekdays: 12:-12:30 Central time (US)
• Cybalounge and 3DWebWorldz (Orientation room)
• I will be in both places, so you may need to speak to get my attention.
• Web-worlds, 3D virtual worlds running in a browser. Summary
• And we can visit the Writer's Workshop on the Web
• Don't register -- enter as guest.  

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