{"id":116,"date":"2011-09-13T16:54:44","date_gmt":"2011-09-13T20:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2011-09-13T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T20:54:44","slug":"dming-and-writing-wendigs-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"DMing and Writing &#8211; Wendig&#8217;s View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, <a href=\"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=82\">I mused<\/a> on whether or not being DM helps you become a better writer. \u00a0 Crazytown Chuck Wendig posted about this topic as a part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakoutwithyourgeekout.com\/\">Speak Out With Your Geek Out<\/a>. I encourage you to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/terribleminds.com\/ramble\/2011\/09\/13\/why-writers-should-play-roleplaying-games\/\">his post<\/a>, a few of my favorite points from which I will summarize below.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Writer&#8217;s block does not live at the game table&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Very, very true. When your PCs want to know just exactly who sent those golems to harass the spooky old tree-beast, you&#8217;ve got about two sips of beer to come up with an answer. And answer you will. Maybe when I&#8217;m stuck while writing, I&#8217;ll imagine some players asking me a question.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Your story is the story of the moment, and it reminds you just how important it is to keep the <em>audience<\/em> in mind \u2014 not just your intent as storyteller but their interests, their needs, <em>their attention<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As soon as the eyes flick over to the iPads, I know I&#8217;ve lost them. My temptation is to have a slavering goblin horde burst in on the scene whenever that happens &#8212; and maybe I should. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1-famous-quotes.com\/quote\/793753\">Chandler <\/a>this thing up a bit. What I need is an iPad-eye-flick measuring device for when people read my fiction.\u00a0 Hmmm&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, I mused on whether or not being DM helps you become a better writer. \u00a0 Crazytown Chuck Wendig posted about this topic as a part of Speak Out With Your Geek Out. I encourage you to check out his post, a few of my favorite points from which I will summarize below. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}