George Lockett & Mary Goodden

It's the end of the year, which means it's time for us to put out a new episode and feel guilty for not releasing more this year! (We were busy, but we got lots more planned for next year!) Our guests this month are George Lockett (Senior Writer at Failbetter Games and a Narrative Consultant, Writer, and Designer at Bear Wolf Narrative. Previously the Narrative Lead on The Last Clockwinder, the Scriptwriter and Interactive Designer for BBC Earth - Micro Kingdoms: Senses, and a Contributing Writer to Where the Water Tastes Like Wine) and Mary Goodden (Senior Narrative Designer at Maze Theory currently working on Peaky Blinders: The King’s Ransom. Previously a Writer and Editor on Zombies, Run!, a Writer and Narrative Designer at Failbetter Games on Sunless Skies and Fallen London, a Writer on Inkle’s Pendragon, and co-created Funicular Simulator 2021), and they join us to discuss how their marketing backgrounds have helped with their writing, how to make a writer’s room work, advice for thinking in terms of design, what's helped maintain their writing output, what they’ve learned from the other writers they’ve worked with, giving feedback, tips for writing themselves out of problems, the best ways we can diversify the voices in the industry, how they approach working with other departments to get their needs taken care of, what their favorite narrative tools are, favorite thesauruses, what their ghosts are, and more, more, MORE! Our Guests on the Internet George's Twitter , Website , and you should wishlist/check out Mask of the Rose when it comes out next year Mary's Twitter , Website , and you should wishlist/check out Peaky Blinders: The King's Ransom when it comes out next year Stuff We Talked About Zombies, Run! Twine Inkjam Writing for Games by Hannah Nicklin The “Reverse of the Spielberg Gaze”: Jordan Peele, Rian Johnson, Tony Kushner and More Talk Shop on THR’s Writers Roundtable Miro Micorosft OneNote Obsidian (the notes app) Webster's 1913 Power Thesaurus WordHippo Our theme music was done by Isabella Ness , and our logo was done by Lily Nishita .

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George Lockett & Mary Goodden is an episode from Script Lock by Max Folkman.

This episode is 01:28:48 long.

This episode was published on Dec 7, 2022.

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