SUPERJUMP Weekly Preview

👋 Hi there! I hope you’re doing well. It’s been a little while since I sent out a newsletter to our Medium audience — we’ve been having all sorts of fun over at our new home.

I thought I’d take this opportunity to give you a little preview of our regular newsletter (available to free subscribers), called SUPERJUMP Weekly. We continue to publish a wide range of brilliant, creative, thought-provoking gaming stories each week, and SUPERJUMP Weekly is the best way to keep up-to-date on all the latest happenings. Oh, and it’s also the place where you’ll find the occasional giveaway (we recently gave one lucky subscriber a physical copy of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection).

Head on over to SUPERJUMP to subscribe for free.

In the meantime, here’s a preview of our latest issue. Enjoy!

🏆Story of the Week

This week’s must read story.

There are so many tips and tricks guides out there to help writers develop their skills and techniques. Their quality is often dubious though, either because they are simply stating the obvious or because they lack sufficient clarity and detail. It can be difficult to take generic high-level tips and apply them in specific cases. What’s great about Cat Webling’s How to Use Dungeons and Dragons to Improve Your Writing is that each practical tip includes clear examples of how those tips can be executed in your writing.

I think we often play games (whether table top or digital) without necessarily thinking about how we’re actually doing the storytelling legwork. It’s useful, then, to have Cat identify the elements we take for granted and explain the underlying narrative machinery, all while demonstrating how we can leverage these tools for our own creative writing. If you’re struggling with a creative project — or you’re simply looking to exercise your writing muscles — I definitely recommend Cat’s guide.

How to Use Dungeons and Dragons to Improve Your Writing

by Cat Webling

I think of people sitting around a table, laughing over massive books and rolling dice. Dungeons and Dragons is a fun game to play when you’ve got all of your friends coming along for the journey, but I believe that the system can also be a great way to exercise your solo creative writing muscles. In a game that relies heavily on building up complex characters, worlds, and scenarios, why couldn’t those campaigns simply be written up as books?