Non-IF works by the IF community

I wrote a derivative work. I think I mentioned before I was invited to test Nox Archaist during COVID lockdown.

There may be a sequel to the game and maybe the hint book too!

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I’ve got a handful of academic articles either published or pending publication now, but I think my cuneiform lessons are the only non-IF thing I’ve written for a general audience.

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FWIW, I have a self published novel on Amazon (and Kobo, although I have lost track of it). It’s in Italian ofc

Figli del Crepuscolo (ITA)

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My primary interest is photography: on my site I publish little stories (in Italian) inspired by the images I propose (and these are a universal language).

One of them is the AI images generated in an attempt to understand what the player of my first interactive fiction might imagine.

My last work is an exhibition about lost railways which ends today in an ancient medieval castle near Bologna (Italy)
A wonderful place to set an adventure.

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These are wonderful.

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Our own @jnelson is a prolific author of fiction.

I especially recommend his trilogy The Bridge Daughter Cycle.

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First character demo is done!

The second main dancer will have a similar body type, so I just need to make some adjustments to this model to accomplish that.

This video took so much time to render. It’s giving me a sense of scale to plan what my workflow will be for the full video.

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Haven’t written any IF, but what of my creative output is available online, not lost in the archives of internet forums, some of which I no longer visit assuming they are still online, and fit to share here can be found on my website at

sightless-sanctuary.net

Which I haven’t updated in a ridiculously long time. Includes some photos of arts and crafts projects(mostly unlabelled since I can’t tell which file is which and the camera gave them meaningless filenames), my dabblings with 3-D modeling and CAD from before I went blind(with no gaurantees the files will open in modern versions of the software used to make them, assuming the software is still around), my musings on various maths questions, some prose snippets from how the website is kind of framed as a location that might exist in a D&D campaign(does that make the website itself count as rudimentary IF?), a song parody or two, and possibly other odds and ends.

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Thank you, Amanda!

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+1 for Jim’s books, I bought A Man Named Baskerville a month or two ago and I’m hyped to read it when I get the chance.

@CMG also writes traditional fiction as well. I bought What Happened at Heath-Cliff Hall because its horror premise sounds fun.

I remember Sarah Mak writes poetry in addition to IF.

@DamonWakes is a prolific writer of static fiction too, Ten Little Astronauts seems to be his latest big novel project that was released.

Edit: Forgot to link to Jim’s book!

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Our own @Jim_Aikin has also written a stack of books: books by Jim Aikin.

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This has turned into a super awesome thread. Very glad Hanon made it. :heart:

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I liked both of your poems, Drew, fwiw. Especially the second one you shared. (And I’m okay with mine being cringe; a long departed teenage boy wrote it decades ago.)

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Not cringe, but good, too. I especially liked the alliterations.

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Beside IF I’ve been working as a writer in different genres and industries since the early 2000s. While I’m English, I grew up in Germany, where I toured the Poetry Slam circuit professionally (with humorous short stories) for a couple of years. I have several published books in German under my belt, my biggest seller being my memoir about growing up as a Jehovah’s Witness (published under a pseudonym): Goodbye, Jehova! - Misha Anouk | Rowohlt

In my day job I work in advertising as strategist (present) and copy writer (past) which both involve a lot of Non-IF writing.

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[Head swivels, unbidden] Thanks for sharing!

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I am an illustrator and comic artist but that’s probably not new to most of you.

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Thank you for your apprecation!

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Here’s one of Jim’s older books on the Internet Archive:

I never read this but remember liking Wall at the Edge of the World.

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Not my best work, I must confess. This book is basically juvenilia. But I appreciate the support! It’s not something I’d publish nowadays, but it was picked up years and years ago by a small press, so I can’t put the genie back in the bottle.

I still think some of the stories in Mirror Dance are pretty good, though. “The King’s Quarry” and “The Heartless Knight.”

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