THURSDAY 8/12: Ludic Liberation Lab ~ VERSIONS, a Creative Writing Game!
+ seeking advice column submissions!
Do you dare call yourself. . . a WRITER?
The identity of WRITER is so fraught with pressures, assumptions, projections! Are you a REAL writer? Like a PUBLISHED one? Are you ORIGINAL? Yeah, but are you GOOD? Can you still call yourself A WRITER if you're a messy speller or if you've never finished a story or a "creative non-fiction essay"? If you ever only write fan fiction? Or if all your work is in your phone's Notes app?
YES. YES, YOU CAN.
WRITING is a game that can be enjoyed in a million different forms! You've already mastered the basic mechanic – literacy. If you're reading this text, you can play with WRITING! Which is why Indigo Esmonde, Daydream Artist and Headmaster at the School of Faliure and myself, Natalia Stroika, Existential Gamemaker/Destroyer at Ludic Liberation created VERSIONS – a creative writing game! The goal of the game is to liberate the process of writing from the anxieties of authorship, originality, perfection, grammar conventions, genre hierarchies, and all the other bogus RULES that make us too scared to play and enjoy this incredibly agile and massively accessible game platform. Playing VERSIONS invites us to have fun with the process of writing, and to treat every single draft, or version, as if it is interesting and valuable on its own.
JOIN US to liberate our writing!
THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 6-7:30pm Eastern Standard Time – that's 6pm Philadelphia Time, 5pm Chicago Time, 3pm Los Angeles Time, 11pm London time, 2am Moscow time, 7am Macau time, 10am Melbourne time.
Ludic Liberation Lab lasts for 1.5 hours, which includes fun warm-ups, collaborative gameplay and design activities, and a debrief that helps us build collective wisdom about play & liberation. Join if you're curious, stay as long as you like!
Ludic Liberation Lab is a contribute-what-you-can adventure! Please see our variable participation options and select the one that delights you most. All contributions go directly to support the gamemakers and advance research into Ludic Liberation.
with jest & justice for all,
Natalia
Gamemaker/Destroyer
P.S. HELP, SEEKING HELP-SEEKING!
I’m still playing BABA IS YOU and finding more and more existential wisdom in its structure. For August’s WILD CARD week (last Monday of the month), I’d like to play with the genre of an ADVICE COLUMN, and offer advice based on the logic of BABA IS YOU. But I need your help! I need some questions to answer. Do you have literally ANY KIND OF LIFE SITUATION or dilemma you’d like some playful perspective on? Please send me a question! As a thank you, I will not only answer your question, but throw in a complimentary subscription to the paid sections of The Lab Report for September. 🃏🎉 Just reply to this email with your question submission!