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Aug. 30th, 2012 09:54 pmI attempted to sign up to run a LARP at UCon, but I took too long filling out the online form, so the site ate my submission. I'll try again tomorrow. Right now, I'm feeling too discouraged at the thought of trying to recreate what I'd written.
We'll be rerunning an old game, Connect the Plots. I wrote it back in 1999 and haven't run it since. I apparently don't have a printed copy of it, so it's a really good thing I still have AppleWorks on my laptop. That's what I wrote it (and several other games) in. I can open the word processing files in the version of Pages that I've got, but that won't work for the files that are partially drawn documents, and there are a lot of those. (We use index cards to represent all physical items and all special abilities. Rather than writing those up by hand, we put together a template so that we could print them on sheets of card stock and them cut them apart.)
As soon as I finish writing chapter 20, I'll begin rereading the game. I need to relearn all the characters and plots if I'm to run the game well.
Chapter 20 is progressing slowly. I have days where the words flow well and days where nothing at all comes out. Right now, I'm stuck. I need to figure out what the original character would do next (I keep wanting to call her an npc. My gaming is leaking into my writing). I haven't put as much detail into the original character as perhaps I ought. I don't want to do a lot with her. She's filling a necessary role, but my focus is on other people.
I have realized that the chapter needs another scene added on, beyond the one I'm currently working (which was supposed to be the end). Some of what I need to write, I can salvage from partial scenes that I tried and abandoned before settling on the version I'm currently writing. This chapter is going to be long. It's also not going to be done by the end of the month. I'd hoped it would be.
We'll be rerunning an old game, Connect the Plots. I wrote it back in 1999 and haven't run it since. I apparently don't have a printed copy of it, so it's a really good thing I still have AppleWorks on my laptop. That's what I wrote it (and several other games) in. I can open the word processing files in the version of Pages that I've got, but that won't work for the files that are partially drawn documents, and there are a lot of those. (We use index cards to represent all physical items and all special abilities. Rather than writing those up by hand, we put together a template so that we could print them on sheets of card stock and them cut them apart.)
As soon as I finish writing chapter 20, I'll begin rereading the game. I need to relearn all the characters and plots if I'm to run the game well.
Chapter 20 is progressing slowly. I have days where the words flow well and days where nothing at all comes out. Right now, I'm stuck. I need to figure out what the original character would do next (I keep wanting to call her an npc. My gaming is leaking into my writing). I haven't put as much detail into the original character as perhaps I ought. I don't want to do a lot with her. She's filling a necessary role, but my focus is on other people.
I have realized that the chapter needs another scene added on, beyond the one I'm currently working (which was supposed to be the end). Some of what I need to write, I can salvage from partial scenes that I tried and abandoned before settling on the version I'm currently writing. This chapter is going to be long. It's also not going to be done by the end of the month. I'd hoped it would be.
