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Writing Samples

These are my writing samples. They are categorized by the situation under which they were created.

Interactive Narrative Samples

These were created in Interactive Narrative classes at Champlain College. For each assignment I was given a project brief for a hypothetical video game, and a limited amount of time to write something that fulfilled that brief.

Copy of Population

This is the Population Assignment.

For this assignment the brief was for an old west RPG. It contained an overall story that the game would follow. (You'll notice references to characters like Delilah Chacon and Boney, these were antagonists of the main story.)

I was given several days to write details for NPCs that would populate the town of Liberty, a location within the game.

The task included writing NPCs at a few different levels of depth, and creating a world that was populated with a level of diversity that was historically accurate to the setting and time period.

This is a quest writing assignment.

This one was really fun because I was tasked with building a quest that followed the arc structure of a different quest that was provided in the brief; what made it interesting, was that the provided quest was pretty flawed.

The quest I was given contained a lot of tropey and stereotypical elements, specifically it used trolls as these sort of faceless bad guys, so I had fun trying to work within the world that was provided, but hopefully imbue it with a bit more depth.

I had only about 2 hours to write this, so that was quite the challenge.

Copy of Thyra's Quest

Copy of Barks

This was a dialogue assignment, specifically "barks" which are like little offhand dialogue lines that the player can overhear passively as they move their character through a populated environment.

The brief for this one was that it took place on a moon base with a water shortage, issues with corrupt leadership, and rumors of aliens.

The real challenge of this was that I had 1 hour to write 100 lines of dialogue! That's more than a line per minute. I'm pretty proud of the accomplishment if I may toot my own horn a bit. (And this is my website, so I may.)

Creative Writing Samples

These were made in creative writing classes, so they are not for interactive media and instead reflect my more conventional writing abilities.

Copy of Copy of Creative Writing Portfolio

This is a portfolio I made in Intro to Creative Writing at Champlain.

It contains mostly poetry, and there is a short story at the end as well.

Copy of Book of Xanthos Final

This is an excerpt of a novella that I wrote for another writing class.

I know I said this section wasn't for game writing, but this was conceived of as a document that would be found in an open world RPG video game. (kinda like the books in Skyrim)

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