Final Piece Evaluation

I enjoyed writing this, and did it almost non stop from start to finish once I had started because it just captured my imagination so much. I'm really glad that I planned it out before I started as it made writing the correct things in the correct places far easier. I would really like to finish the story, as I think that the introduction/first chapter that I have written for it has a multitude of places it can go.

I would have liked to have spent a bit more time describing the places and events, but as there was a restrictive word limit, I didn't want to go crazy and not be able to actually finish the arc within the story. The planning really did help, and writing it all up into a Word document before moving it all over into quest made it a simple task of copying and pasting each section into the write heading.

Learning about the monomyth, Propp's theories on narrative and the three act structure made it a lot easier to both plan and write the final piece. Research into choose your own adventure books and text adventures gave me a lot of inspiration and thinking of situations that could have some form of choice withing gaming made it a whole lot easier to come up with my own.

I am glad that I ended up using the setting that I did and not one of my scrapped ones as it was my own original setting, my 40k setting may have had a huge amount more choice to it, and the Berlin crime setting had more opportunities for better dialogue writing, but the setting I ultimately chose was special to me as all the elements within were my own ideas.

I chose to write as a choose your own adventure book as opposed to a text adventure as it seemed as though there would be more opportunity for writing longer sections, as text games rely on solitary sentences of description as opposed to the more free form choose your own adventure books which allow for more descriptive and creative writing.

The module was a good experience, and really helped me to hone some of my writing skills. I really did learn and understand the importance of planning and mapping a story, something I will do every time from now on, as it made everything so much easier. My own research that I did on dialogue, pacing and descriptive sections taught me some things that I will put into practice each time I write from now on. In summary, I think the module taught me a lot and I have improved as a writer as a result of it.