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Subject:Re: Creative writers among us? From:coliver -at- lexmark -dot- com To:"Techwr-l" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:20:55 -0500
Quoth Craig Cardimon:
> In the spirit of the post "musicians among us," I would love to know if
> there any creative writers here.
>
> I am an aspiring creative writer - I am trying to write a novel - and
> was wondering if anyone else was trying to do the same or similar.
It's not quite fiction in the usual narrative sense, but I've been
involved in roleplaying game design for about a decade now, and have a
fair amount of word count in print (in, admittedly, a very small market).
ObTechComm, the experience in writing game rules has had some strong
parallels to the process documentation work I've done in my regular jobs,
and vice versa.
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