About
I've been a roleplayer and storyteller for most of my life, moving from storytelling/make-believe games to Choose Your Own Adventures to Dungeons and Dragons, and a variety of other games. I've playtested stuff, written stuff, been part-owner of a games store, been a professional Game Master, and have recently been writing (mostly) daily posts for Game Masters Stash, a Facebook-based page.
As part of that process, I've realized that writing is something I really want to be doing, and I want to make it my own work.
So I started this blog, where I can archive my thoughts and pieces of work, and be able to cross-reference them.
Now that I'm being a little more open and confident about my work, I'm starting to tell friends and family about this. I want this to be a repository of the work I've done, but also a place where people can see some of my thoughts and skills 'out loud', as it were.
It crosses my mind that a lot of the things I invent are terrible and horrific concepts - monsters, awful people and plots, and tragic events. Now, I'm just writing fiction (and generally, interactive fiction where the readers'/players' role is wish-fulfilment heroism), but I'm not trying to put those ideas out into the world. I guess it's a form of creating challenges and hoping that gallant folks rise to the occasion to make things better. It might be a roundabout form of optimism, I don't know.
But why "Building Paper Mountains"?
That's inspired by a line in the Foo Fighters song 'Walk', which accompanied Marvel's 2011 movie 'Thor'.
It references the old days of "building paper mountains", then sitting to watch them burn. That sentiment really struck a chord to my heart, as a lot of stuff created as a story writer and Game Master is expressly for the purpose of having it be destroyed.
So this is a blog about making stuff up, throwing out my ideas into the void and hoping that they at least burn brightly for you, or make you burn brightly in answer to it.
Here are some of my favourites, bits and pieces that I'm particularly proud of:
- Holiday Season one-shots
- Seryn Gwaran, innkeeper
- The "Click" moment
- Queen Mardyth, Murderess
- Rhabrhyn, Herald of the New World
- Resources for GMing a game
- Princess Khousgrahylda
- Mnemosyne Snails
- The Coin Fountain of Golden Plaza
- Prince Killian of Seril Vale
- The Ten Thousand Kings of Hell
Thanks for reading, folks.
- Luke
As part of that process, I've realized that writing is something I really want to be doing, and I want to make it my own work.
So I started this blog, where I can archive my thoughts and pieces of work, and be able to cross-reference them.
Now that I'm being a little more open and confident about my work, I'm starting to tell friends and family about this. I want this to be a repository of the work I've done, but also a place where people can see some of my thoughts and skills 'out loud', as it were.
It crosses my mind that a lot of the things I invent are terrible and horrific concepts - monsters, awful people and plots, and tragic events. Now, I'm just writing fiction (and generally, interactive fiction where the readers'/players' role is wish-fulfilment heroism), but I'm not trying to put those ideas out into the world. I guess it's a form of creating challenges and hoping that gallant folks rise to the occasion to make things better. It might be a roundabout form of optimism, I don't know.
But why "Building Paper Mountains"?
That's inspired by a line in the Foo Fighters song 'Walk', which accompanied Marvel's 2011 movie 'Thor'.
It references the old days of "building paper mountains", then sitting to watch them burn. That sentiment really struck a chord to my heart, as a lot of stuff created as a story writer and Game Master is expressly for the purpose of having it be destroyed.
So this is a blog about making stuff up, throwing out my ideas into the void and hoping that they at least burn brightly for you, or make you burn brightly in answer to it.
Here are some of my favourites, bits and pieces that I'm particularly proud of:
- Holiday Season one-shots
- Seryn Gwaran, innkeeper
- The "Click" moment
- Queen Mardyth, Murderess
- Rhabrhyn, Herald of the New World
- Resources for GMing a game
- Princess Khousgrahylda
- Mnemosyne Snails
- The Coin Fountain of Golden Plaza
- Prince Killian of Seril Vale
- The Ten Thousand Kings of Hell
Thanks for reading, folks.
- Luke