{"id":141,"date":"2009-02-10T11:12:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T18:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gm.thuranni.net\/?p=141"},"modified":"2009-08-04T10:16:12","modified_gmt":"2009-08-04T18:16:12","slug":"141","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Kickin&#8217; it up a notch.  Musings about how to add flavor to my games at the expense of plot."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my <a href=\"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/?p=83#more-83\">Lessons of NaNoWriMo<\/a> post, one of the things I learned about my writing is that a structured outline does not inhibit my creativity, it simply displaces it.  Instead of coming up with crazy plot twists on the fly, I start filling in details when all the plot twists are set in stone.<\/p>\n<p>My biggest problem GMing recently has been a lack of flavor.  NPCs turn out bland.  Locations lack description.  Flavor exists in the world, but I don&#8217;t bother publishing it.  My theory (which came at about 1am last night and kept me up till about 2am last night) is that if I stopped writing complex plots by the seat of my pants I&#8217;d take time to invest creative energy into juicy bits of detail.  After I finish this game I&#8217;m going to try running somebody else&#8217;s published adventures just to see what happens.  With any luck I&#8217;ll start leaving my mark as colorful NPCs instead of Lost-esque plot twists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in my Lessons of NaNoWriMo post, one of the things I learned about my writing is that a structured outline does not inhibit my creativity, it simply displaces it. Instead of coming up with crazy plot twists on the fly, I start filling in details when all the plot twists are set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[26,33],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-improvement","tag-flavor","tag-plot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gm.sagotsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}