Join the team from Baen Books as they announce the winner of the 2016 Baen Fantasy Adventure award and give a preview of some of the great new books coming from Baen in the coming year.
Join O&F Podcast for their annual LIVE mega-cast! It’s an epic blend of snarky fun, awesome prizes, and Yoda-like writing wisdom with Robin Hobb, Steve Bein, Scott Lynch, Mur Lafferty and more!
If you’ve dreamed of writing for your favorite video game, we’ll teach you how to get into the industry, how to build a portfolio, what the job actually entails, how to interact with a team, and more.
Writing for games involves a team of people, including art, design, marketing, and more. We’ll teach you how to successfully adapt your solitary writer’s personality to work well on a creative team.
Video Game Writing: Game Stories vs Stories for Other Media
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Discover what makes writing for video games a unique challenge, how to write great stories for video games, and tricks for making sure that your writing delivers real value in the video game industry.
Video Game Writing: Make it Bigger! Make it Cooler!
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You ended the last game with the final battle of the apocalypse—and now they want you to do it all again, only bigger! Learn how to turn your video game stories up to 11 without jumping the shark.
The gaming demographic is significantly different than when the industry began, so we’ll look at ways writers can respectfully and intelligently represent and write for the modern gaming audience.
There's a good chance everything you think you know about writing for video games is wrong. Learn what it really entails - and what aspiring game writers need to know.
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Everything you think you know about writing for video games is probably wrong. Here's a chance to learn what the job really entails - from story meetings to dialog recording sessions to the secret of what the most important dialog in the game really is - and to learn about the skills needed to work professionally as a writer in the video game field. It's not all cut scenes and wow moments, but it is a richer, more interesting and more challenging job than you might have imagined.
Video Game Writing: What NOT To Do As a Game Writer
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If you want to make it writing in the game industry, it’s important to know not only what you should do but what you shouldn’t! We’ll teach you how to avoid the mistakes made by others before you!
Learn the specialized approaches used by game writers when worldbuilding for games, and explore successful worldbuilding techniques when working with pre-existing game worlds.