Having conducted one of the interviews currently up on The Rosebush, I really enjoyed that process and had a great time sitting down for a chat with Manon: I think it’d be a fun thing to take another stab at with someone else.
(Though, we conducted it in a little bit of a non-traditional way: I came up with a list of questions I had for her after we both sat down and generated some bullet points on general themes, we workshopped them, she answered them, and we met again for a quick polish and go over to make it feel a bit more coherent: all done asynchronously through text.)
Most of my close friends in the IF world either don’t seem particularly open to the idea of doing an interview (often due to feeling as if they haven’t participated enough in the realm), or are too busy, though, so it’s kind of been just an absent thought floating in the pea brain soup.
I had thought about sitting down with Tabitha perhaps, especially as we’ve been chatting a bit more since they’ve joined our TTRPG sessions: I’ve been an admirer of their writing for awhile, so it’s been quite exciting having them join our play-by-post styled campaign, and we do share some crossover in terms of writing character centric, romance with an LGBT cast, so I’m sure there’s a discussion to be had there- but wasn’t sure if people would be interested in something like that. So it’s good to hear there’s someone who would be!
This is also a topic I’ve been mulling over- but I had worried it was too off topic for The Rosebush, since it is like, TTRPG stuff. But the Neo-Interactives founding members all met / grew out of a TTRPG campaign for a Goncharov TTRPG that’d been submitted to the Goncharov Jam, so there’s that tie in that I find really interesting.
But I also often find myself in a position where I’m teaching people either years out of rusty practice with adjacent styles of roleplay (usually a smaller scale, or less prose-y), or completely new to collaborative writing how to play along, and I think I’ve done a pretty good job at it so far: I’ve converted one into my most steady writing partner, and gotten a good review from the latest little meowmeow to hop into the kitten basket, haha! But, there is a lot of transfer in terms of the dynamism and creating a fun world for fellow writers to play in, that I think would work well in terms of writing IF too…
Also, with our current campaign, we’re all IF writers- Tabitha, Manon, Jinx, and myself: and have vague plans to transmute our campaign into a work of interactive fiction, playing with some of the presentation I’ve explored in other tiny little IF projects… Plus Jinx and I have already used our TTRPG characters from a former Butterfly Court campaign (also run with the Neo-Interactives) in several little games of IF, which has been slightly confusing for some people with my many AUs of Andrey, hahaha. But yeah! This is definitely an area of interest for me.