Or one of the ideas I had that was all about just building a world. I keep telling myself that I’ll revive one of the previous ideas I had, from twenty or ten years ago, where I had plots and characters thought out and could think of new ones every day if I tried. I keep telling myself that I’ll write an SCP article, or a Tale. I told myself that I’d start over and rewrite it to be less fast paced, since I could just write a story instead of a short story.

When the game fell apart, I told myself that I would keep going, and I did, for a bit, but then I stopped. That’s not much, and I didn’t even finish it. It was 5,050 words long, not counting the random scribble of plot outline on the first page. Any time I think about solidifying an idea, or turning something into an actual long form prose story, I just can’t bring myself to do it.Īt best I started writing a backstory for a character in a Star Wars Saga Edition game that didn’t really get off the ground. I wish I did, but my brain just won’t let me. Even if I turn out about three of them a year. I’m not a big fancy writer of genre fiction like Alan Wake the character is. Writing about Alan Wake feels kind of surreal in that in some ways the entire plot revolves around writer’s block, and trying to overcome it. (There are minor spoilers for Control, including one late game event I reference in passing) Writer’s Block Honestly, even compared to my usual variable level of quality, this might not be as good simply because I might rush it just to replay Control in a new light and play through AWE.

These are my feelings about the game before I play AWE, but after playing Control first. I have played through Alan Wake, the two DLCs, and his American Nightmare, though. I’m actually writing this the day AWE launched, because I’m exceptionally lazy and all I know how to do is procrastinate, even though I beat Control back in July. I suppose I should also mention that this comes between playing Control’s main game and playing the AWE expansion that supposedly serves as a sequel of sorts to Alan Wake.

Isn’t it weird how AWE could also stand for Alan Wake Experience?

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