It is DONE! Finished. *cheers*

Not sure if I want to post it, now that it's all written, but going to put up the abstract, just so you can see how it turned out in the end. After that, we'll see. Then going to bed. OMG! Sleep! I can has it!
( Dissertation Abstract )

Currently stands at just over 4,000 words, sans introduction and conclusion, which I need to see Ann about before whacking those in. But, it's DONE! The draft is DONE! Have been working on it solid for the last ... almost 19 hours (with a litre of coke), having needed to totally rewrite what I had before. Gary Alan Fine works just fine, but as a ( Read more... )

Two months to go, and my thesis question has changed again - What strategies work most effectively to represent, for a general audience, ways in which role-play fantasy games make possible diverse identity experiences?

Should I be so amazed that my thesis question, originally to do with the history of D&D, then the investment in editions of it, no ( Read more... )

Spent all week writing the creative part of my thesis - it's basically my tale of my journey through Dungeons and Dragons. 4,000 words down (the pause on Romanticide can be attributed to this), totally raw and unedited, which puts me halfway through the creative piece, and leaves the exegesis.

Took this in to my supervisors today, and they're both ( Read more... )

Beginning the great purge of my mind that is my creative non fiction. It's very strange, the things that you can recall, because I remember this moment so very well.

~*~

“I’m starting a new campaign.”

Five simple words pique my interest and I turn in my seat in the car to look at the driver.

“I have this great idea,” he continues happily, ( Read more... )

Saw my supervisors today. And they have requested 5,000 words for next Monday. I know I'm late in the game, but it's doable. It wasn't until afterwards that I realised that that's almost half the word count. -faints-

However, that's 5,000 words completely unedited, we'll be working through whatever I purge. (Don't quite know if I can do that....) ( Read more... )

A lot of roleplaying, difference in player groups, marked difference between characters - flamboyant and generally more fun, in direct contrast to HtKaG characters who, although in character, are not so exuberant.
New version, no one really knows what is going on. Over and over. Learning process.

Group dynamic works very differently. ( Read more... )

I am researching the table-top pen-and-paper roleplay game, Dungeons and Dragons. You might ask how that is possible in an academic context.

I am doing a Professional Writing and Publishing honours , which will take the form of a piece of creative nonfiction based on research into players’ personal relationship with evolving editions of the ( Read more... )

Central Research Question and Objectives

This research seeks to address issues of player investment in the current version of Dungeons and Dragons (even if it is determined that such investment is actually none at all), and how to best present these theories to an audience.

The central research question is thus: How do the key elements of ( Read more... )

Feature articles have been abandoned for creative nonfiction. Ie memoir. This is going to work so much better - one, now no more hunting down publications, not even having to specify an audience. Two, I think the genre fits the game better. It's all about stories and characters anyway. Three, I hate journalism/articles with a burning passion, while ( Read more... )