Category: Personal
If you’re looking for my samples folder, it’s here.
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Lessons hard-learned from parenthood.
I am five years in now, and I realise I have written nothing on being a parent. Every year I wanted to, every month. But the years went by and I found myself changing nappies and working at midnight and sleeping very little and it always felt there were More Important things to be doing…
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Game Writer Applications:Samples / Portfolio
My blog on getting a job in game-writing was too long so I split it up. The main article is here. Okay, this is where the bullshitting ends. Everything above was about getting your foot in the door, without having to prove anything. But your samples are what you’ll need to get the actual interview…
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Game Writer Applications: Covering Letters
The core of a covering letter is about you saying you have the skills on the job description and backing them with evidence from the work you have done. It is an argument every step of the way, constructed piece-by-piece. You can disguise it with eloquence, but it needs to be convincing and backed up.
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Legacy, Lebowski
Of the 40+ print magazines I worked on, less than 5% are still in print. Of the games I’ve worked on as a writer, at least half didn’t make it out of the starting gate. (One, called Legacy, came out this year and is almost impossible to access. I don’t know anyone who’s played it.)…
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