{"id":806,"date":"2021-04-05T12:32:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/leonpaullynn\/?p=806"},"modified":"2024-10-19T17:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T16:14:15","slug":"article-game-writings-no-game-why-interactive-writing-isnt-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2021\/04\/05\/article-game-writings-no-game-why-interactive-writing-isnt-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"[Article] Game Writing&#8217;s No Game: Why Interactive Writing Isn&#8217;t Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gamewriting.jpg?resize=768%2C512&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-807\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gamewriting.jpg?w=768&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gamewriting.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gamewriting.jpg?resize=507%2C338&amp;ssl=1 507w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Cover image courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.surreynewwritersfest.com\/\" class=\"ek-link\">Surrey New Writers Festival<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>This article focuses on the unique aspects of interactive writing, some broad methods for it, and why it\u2019s more challenging and emotionally complex than it often gets credit for. It was written for the 2021&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surreynewwritersfest.com\/\">Surrey New Writers Festival<\/a>&nbsp;during my time as assistant director for the 2021 festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the article below, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2024\/09\/30\/update-broken-snwf-articles\/\">SNWF website update<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/LeonLynn_SNWF2021_Games.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">LeonLynn_SNWF2021_Games<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article focuses on the unique aspects of interactive writing, some broad methods for it, and why it\u2019s more challenging and emotionally<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/2021\/04\/05\/article-game-writings-no-game-why-interactive-writing-isnt-simple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Article] Game Writing&#8217;s No Game: Why Interactive Writing Isn&#8217;t Simple<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,157,147,163,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-opinion-articles","category-portfolio","category-portfolio-archives","category-surrey-new-writers-festival"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/gamewriting.jpg?fit=768%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leonlynn.com\/leonlynn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}