vivdunstan: Art work for the IF Archive including traditional text adventure tropes like a map, lamp, compass, key, rope, books a skull, and a sigh referring to grues (interactive fiction)
vivdunstan ([personal profile] vivdunstan) wrote2024-10-25 03:05 pm
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IFComp 2024 prize money purchase #1

Got the first thing I've treated myself to from my IFComp 2024 prize money (I have quite a chunk of the prize still to spend). Jeff VanderMeer's "Wonderbook: An Illustrated Guide to Creating Imaginative Fiction". Reading this book is not going to magically make me a great writer. I know that the important thing is to just write, and stick at it. And I've confidence from my IFComp 2024 game that I can complete new creative writing projects in future. But any tips I can get from the book I will gratefully receive and apply to my own projects. It is a gorgeous book. Lavishly illustrated, very creatively designed. Not a wall of text. So it's accessible even for reading challenged me.