Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label writing. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Is RPG Worldbuilding "Writing"?

After rehearsal last night, my pianist (whom I met in grad school for English) and I retired to a local pub for drinks and conversation. Since we hadn't seen each other for a while, we did the usual catching-up Q&A.  Among one of the first questions out of his mouth was, "so... have you written anything lately?"

He was referring to fiction and poetry, to which my answer was (sadly) "no".  But as I was driving home later, I caught myself thinking about all of the worldbuilding, adventure-creating, and connected blogging that I've done here recently.  Does this stuff count as "writing"?  I'm not sure. On the one hand, it feels very creative and certainly requires a lot of word production. On the other hand, though, people (my fellow players, folks who read this blog) don't really seem to care about the writing itself. Rather, they like the interaction with the ideas, whether that means going through one of my adventures at the game table or borrowing ideas to use in their own games.

What do you think?