{"id":1002,"date":"2011-08-15T10:27:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T14:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2011-08-15T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T14:27:38","slug":"novel-progress-sidetracked-by-game-inventing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Novel progress sidetracked by game inventing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about 12K words into the writing of my novel.  The next scene I write will introduce a new character who is gambling away some money on a game of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/66atao\">Twenty Wizards<\/a><\/em>.  I definitely wanted to introduce him playing a game; gaming just goes with the personality of the character.  And he&#8217;s gambling; he takes risks.  Anyway, since my novel takes place in a fantasy world, I didn&#8217;t want him to be playing any game that would exist here on Earth, so I invented a pretty simple card game, calling it (for now) <em>Twenty Wizards<\/em> (of the 120 cards used in the game 20 are wizards, and they are the most powerful cards you can draw).  I nerdishly printed out the cards on green construction paper and cut &#8217;em up and somehow managed to get my sister to play so that we could test out different variations on the rules.  Winning takes a combination of luck and strategy, but it&#8217;s simple enough that once you get used to it, you can play through each round quite quickly.  I&#8217;ve only tried playing it one-on-one so far; I&#8217;d like to try it with three or more players at some point, but I think it will work for the purposes of my book.<\/p>\n<p>My testing version is a card game, but in the novel the game will be played with game pieces, the size of chess pieces, on specialized tables.  Should be fun to write.  I&#8217;ll probably stay away from going into a detailed explanation of the game&#8217;s rules in the novel, but the info will exist somewhere for interested readers&#8230; if this thing ever gets finished and published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m about 12K words into the writing of my novel. The next scene I write will introduce a new character who is gambling away some money on a game of Twenty Wizards. I definitely wanted to introduce him playing a game; gaming just goes with the personality of the character. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[415],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-ga","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}