From Dungeons to Drafts: Evolution of Roleplaying and Its Influence on Writing

After rebranding Penman Ventures from Medical Writing to something a little more creative, we open our new podcast to the topic of roleplaying; And how it can influence creative writing.

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Referenced Articles

• Effectiveness of Role-Playing in Enhancing Creative Writing of English Majors Students at Al-Quds University - Daghamin, Rashed & Naser, Inas & Khales, Buad. (2017). Effectiveness of Role-Playing in Enhancing Creative Writing of English Major Students at Al-Quds University. British Journal of Education, Society & Behavioural Science. 19. 1-12. 10.9734/BJESBS/2017/29794. An article that explores the effectiveness of creative dramatic play in improving students' creative writing and ability to comprehend and appreciate creative text.
• Roleplaying games were around hundreds of years before Dungeons & Dragons | Dicebreaker - Stephen Payne is a freelance writer and historian based in the south of England. He loves three things in life: animals, history and, of course, games.
• How Role-Playing Helps Our Writing - and Our Marriage | Writer's Digest - Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka met and fell in love in high school. Austin went on to graduate from Harvard, while Emily graduated from Princeton. Together, they are the authors of several novels about romance for teens and adults. Now married, they live in Los Angeles, where they continue to take daily inspiration from their own love story. They recently published the book: Do I Know You, a story where a married couple go on vacation and reexplore their marriage... from the perspective of two "strangers" who learn to flirt with and love one another again.