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Aaron Voigt (Detente for the Ravenous out NOW!)
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Portfolio and contacts at aavoigt.com TTRPG Videos: youtube.com/@aavoigt Co-host: The Bible Boys and Mortified the Friendship Quest Games: aaronsxl.itch.io First Reader: @khoreo.bsky.social He/him
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With the news about NaNoWriMo coming out as pro-AI theft, I wanted to share the words of game designer Aaron King, who gave me a really profound answer about what they think makes good writing. It makes me so grateful there's still people out there who give a shit about the work.

King- The first time, no, the second time I dropped out of college, I moved to a different town and I was working at an old timey confectionery and ice cream place. So four to five days a week, I would go in and put on black pants and a nice white shirt and an apron and a paper hat. And I would either be scooping ice cream or washing dishes or helping the owner's dad, an 80 year old man named Oscar make homemade chocolates and stuff. So we were on a main floor of a building. We had the ice cream shop, we had a coffee shop, and then we had a basement where we stored all this bulk candy that we ordered from people. And we had the place where Oscar would make these chocolate turtles: almonds, caramel, chocolate. And one day Oscar was like, “Hey, look at this.” And he took me to the basement stairs and he pulled down this plywood slide that he had constructed on a hinge that would cover the right half of the stairs. And he took a big box that we just received and put it at the top of the s
And he was like, “Yeah, every day you try to improve a little bit. You try to make this place a little better.” And I just like was almost crying because this man that could you know, not lift anything was so old, was still just like making these weird little changes around here and thinking of other people other than him. That's one of the things that I just carry forward in this process of making stuff is just like… I will never be a Will Jobst. I will never be “insert name of my favorite writer here.” But I'm driven to make these things. There's no reason for me not to make them. I might as well try to get a little better every single day. And sometimes that means reading and sometimes that means sitting down and doing some hard self assessment and figuring out where the weaknesses are. Or how to get better or how best to spend my time. Sometimes it's fun. Sometimes it's really hard. But I don't… I'm not going to become fucking William Faulkner, you know? I'm not going to become Lo
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MGmeatcastlegameware.com

God, Aaron is just the best!

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Fuck that's really good.

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DC6sidedgames.bsky.social

That is amazing advice.

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Aaron Voigt (Detente for the Ravenous out NOW!)
@aavoigt.bsky.social
Portfolio and contacts at aavoigt.com TTRPG Videos: youtube.com/@aavoigt Co-host: The Bible Boys and Mortified the Friendship Quest Games: aaronsxl.itch.io First Reader: @khoreo.bsky.social He/him
424 followers215 following969 posts
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