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Class Notes: The Executioner
Read More: Class Notes: The ExecutionerOne of the hardest things about editing is admitting that some ideas, no matter how cool, just don’t have a place in your current project. Writers call this process of erasing scenes or characters “drowning your baby”. Ed and I have had to do this multiple times during the course of this project. Some ideas…
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Class Notes: Bringing it Together
Read More: Class Notes: Bringing it TogetherAs promised last week, I did in fact finish Plot Point 10. Here’s the stats: Plot Points Completed: 10 of 12 Pages: 44 of 47 PP word count: 2,276 of 25,248 Although many of my plot points call back to what has come before, this adventure–the first of the Senior year plot points–is where I really had to…
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Class Notes: Regaining Lost Momentum
Read More: Class Notes: Regaining Lost MomentumI’m trying to get back into the habit of posting a Class Notes update whether or not I’m done with a plot point. In this case, it’s “not”. Even so, I actually feel pretty good about how things are going. Considering I was on a camping trip for three nights last week,[1. Camping in Texas…
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Class Notes: Brought to You By the Letter i
Read More: Class Notes: Brought to You By the Letter iSince I do my editing from multiple computers, I keep my Degrees of Horror files stored on the cloud so that I can access them from wherever I happen to be. I’ve developed my own versioning system so that if I delete a line or paragraph that I later want to restore I have the…
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Class Notes: Finding the Awesome
Read More: Class Notes: Finding the AwesomePosting to this site was supposed to be a measure of honesty and keep my writing goals on track. There was no update last week, in part because I took a mini-vacation and in part because I hadn’t finished plot poin 9 yet. Unfortunately, another week has rolled around and I still haven’t finished it.…
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Designer’s Notebook: Exams
For those who haven’t played ETU before, one of the core mechanics is that each Advance corresponds to an exam (either mid-terms or finals). You ARE a student after all, so that means making choices between investigating a haunting or attending a study session. Your academics can be improved or worsened based on extracurriculars and…
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Designer Notes: More Setting Rules
First, I want to say thank you with all my heart to those who have backed Fresh Blood on Kickstarter. It means so much to Preston and I and we hope you like and appreciate our efforts. Our fans are awesome, and I can’t wait to hear all of your tales and adventures in Pinebox. …
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One Crazy Idea
I (Preston) published a version of this article on my Substack back in early April. If you want the early scoop about my writing projects, that’s a good place to subscribe (for free). A couple months ago when we were building up momentum to talk about the Kickstarter for East Texas University: Fresh Blood, I…
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