I’m giving a talk on May 1 at UC Irvine and I want discuss the links between immersive theater and larp (live action role-playing). I’ve done some reading in larp — particularly in Nordic larp, as it’s highly theorized — but I realized my background…
Tag: writing
My day job is teaching game design. In our program we use a design methodology called playcentric, developed by Tracy Fullerton (and detailed in her excellent book, Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games.) The core idea is the experience of playing the…
I started writing something and I don’t know where it’s going to go. I don’t know if you still can, but back when I smoked, you could get these crazy amazing cigarette brands in Japanese convenience stores. Slender peach-flavored cigarettes for young ladies, mellow vanilla…
This will be the first year I’ll be taking part in #PitchWars and I’m super excited! If you’re visiting to find out a little bit more about me and my submission, I hope this helps! About Me I’m Miyuki Jane Pinckard, but everyone calls…
I’m working on a novel now that is set in a world heavily inspired by Heian Japan around the year 900 CE, and the research has been extremely… challenging. Because left to my own devices, I would just RESEARCH FOREVER. Research, for me, is this…
I’ve been working on this YA fantasy for at least two years now, and although I know what’s going to happen, more or less, I’ve really struggled with finding the voice of the novel. I wrote it first in third person, then rewrote parts of…
I prefer the term “marginalized” to “minority” when talking about my identity and that of others, for two reasons: 1. “Minority” is not accurate in many contexts. Globally, for example, White people are statistically speaking a minority. In certain communities within the U.S., there are…
I’m working on a fanfiction. It’s interesting to me that I still feel slightly embarrassed by this statement, even though I have unabashedly read and loved fanfic for years. There’s something about taking it up myself, though, that gives me pause. I think it’s a…