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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 2h

we need to believe in ourselves as writers... but be careful. a new piece on self-belief, criticism, and whether you're -really- as indifferent to your audience as you think you are. gregbuchanan.co.uk/articles/wri... (my second article after leaving Substack -- shares much appreciated!)

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writing and the danger of self-belief · Greg Buchanan

are you really indifferent to what readers, audiences, and players might value?

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writing and the danger of self-belief · Greg Buchanan

are you really indifferent to what readers, audiences, and players might value?

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 28/09/2026

last time i saw William Pugh was in the middle of the night while in the aisle of a plane heading back from GDC pre-covid, just both of us wandering around unable to sleep. was it real? was it a dream? these are questions

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 27/09/2026

any ikea skadis aficionados in the house?

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 25/09/2026

i say this as someone who enjoyed endgame first time and this time, honestly just, just - all the hype for the essential nature of watching this, it was literally like an internet meme version of what people might have predicted them adding

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 25/09/2026

don’t spoil yourself on the astounding astounding new footage in Avengers Endgame Encore, my wife and i were terrified of whatever they were going to add and the cinema burst out laughing when it happened it was amazing

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 24/09/2026

i hate to judge something by its name but Control Resonant feels really badly titled. a number route or a turning-into-sentence type title would have felt far more appealing to me

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 22/09/2026

nothing changes if nothing changes

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 22/09/2026

mcdonald’s in the uk covered in patronising levelling up xbox ads while they just set fire to their own platform and future business

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 22/09/2026

less than two months remaining now!

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 21/09/2026

at the hospital saying hi to our daughter again

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that one video game writer @deathmeetauthor.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

too many people treat the maxim of “game dev is an iterative process” as meaning “we should salt the earth every time we have a new idea” rather than “let’s explore and improve the ideas we already agreed on”

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 17/09/2026

gregbuchanan.co.uk/courses/ - a new cohort is starting in the next few weeks for my game writing workshop. Craft-focussed for writers wanting to make a new project in a supportive environment with challenge and ambition. A few places left -- apply at the link

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Writing Interactive Academy · Greg Buchanan

Create your own 30 minute+ narrative game with live video workshop playthroughs, supportive peers, and direct feedback along the way -- culminating in an industry showcase.

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Natalie @heartimecia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Greg's class was a formative experience for me! such a sharp eye for editing and wealth of knowledge. he also knows how to encourage his students while challenging them in healthy ways. highly recommend to anyone, but especially those ready to take the first step toward becoming game writers!

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 17/09/2026

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Writing Interactive Academy · Greg Buchanan

Create your own 30 minute+ narrative game with live video workshop playthroughs, supportive peers, and direct feedback along the way -- culminating in an industry showcase.

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 15/09/2026

Table exploring the new in-progress cat shelves (holding strong in the wall also, which was a fear!) Got a few more to put up. bucket only climbs them if i put a treat up there, otherwise he’s scared (or, he’s tricking me)

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articy:draft @articydraft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A good narrative twist can make us rethink everything. Bad ones can make us question whether the game ever trusted us. In this article Greg Buchanan explores twists, player agency, empathy, and the difference between being tricked and being cheated: gregbuchanan.co.uk/articles/twi...

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twists, tricks, and empathy in game narrative · Greg Buchanan

sometimes, I think, I actually want to be a piece of food spat out from a throat. an article on how plot twists in game writing can delight or feel like cheating, and the easily breakable bond…

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 14/09/2026

getting a migraine every week on the day of parenting class pre-baby and it’s obviously just caused by the weather and pressure changes and not at all anything else

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

From the game side: welcome to the party, pal

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 09/09/2026

As the inaugural article in the brand new version of my de-Substacked de-paywalled blog on game writing and narrative, this piece from @inkle.co 's Game Narrative Kaleidoscope. Nervous about leaving substack, so shares/subscribes appreciated! gregbuchanan.co.uk/articles/twi...

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twists, tricks, and empathy in game narrative · Greg Buchanan

sometimes, I think, I actually want to be a piece of food spat out from a throat. an article on how plot twists in game writing can delight or feel like cheating, and the easily breakable bond between...

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 09/09/2026

I've redesigned my website -- www.gregbuchanangames.com -- so a good opportunity to reintro myself to new followers: Hi, I'm Greg, I write horror/crime books & video games, TTRPGs & Magic: The Gathering. I teach/write about writing, I have three cats, a daughter on the way, and I live in Scotland!

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 09/09/2026

we bought frog cakes but when we got home

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inkle @inkle.co · 09/09/2026

another little shiny little button available to read

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 09/09/2026

I decided to start with this one as I'm pretty happy with it already and it sets up an important 'suspension of disbelief' vs games narrative theme that some of my other work has covered. Expect more on this with other games (including Baldur's Gate 3 and more) coming up!

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twists, tricks, and empathy in game narrative · Greg Buchanan

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 09/09/2026

I'm also going to be moving on from Substack and making articles free without a paywall -- but am gradually going to re-release them rather than all in one go, so I can make edits. Sign up still via the old Substack or on the site's 'subscribe' and you'll be on the new list when it's made!

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 08/09/2026

i never played ocarina at the time so have no emotional attachment to the discourse, but in general people could be less dunky and more funky

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 08/09/2026

the suspense and tragedy evoked by this google review

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 06/09/2026

the boys are at peace… but for how long?

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Cara Ellison @caraellison.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

tbh wolverine is just a superhero who is tantamount to a man from an urban Scottish area. thats his power is wearing a tracksuit and stabbing people when he gets mad. he’s also invincible from a bizarre substance made in a lab

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 04/09/2026

having a baby soon and honestly the clothes for babies in supermarkets in uk are so cool. compare to the range of stuff made for adult men in tescos and sainsbury’s: just five variations of this with some with random place names printed on them

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 04/09/2026

you are allowed to consume storytelling if it is my book i wrote called consumed though

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 03/09/2026

games writing nightmare flashbacks

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 28/08/2026

I spent ages wall mounting my monitor only for the wall mount to be perfect and the -screen- to break for unrelated reasons. I feel like Wile E Coyote (SPEAKING OF WHICH, loved Coyote vs Acme, go see)

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Looney Tunes: Wile E. Coyote's Frustration

Alt: Looney Tunes: Wile E. Coyote's Frustration

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The depressing thing about the US isn't Trump really. He's just a grotesque. It's the complete failure of all the things liberals believe in: Congress, the judiciary, the press, voters themselves, all persistently unwilling or unable to stop him. It's the failure of an entire society.

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 25/08/2026

bugged by this "they deserve it!" thing every time T does something that'll hurt rural towns or industries. this is frustratingly common among people who identify as socialist. do you even read? do you operate from an actual ideological framework or is it just an identity/tribe for you?

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 22/08/2026

The moses basket is a hit with the fur babies. we may need to get another for our upcoming human baby later (or as my wife calls them, “child of the skin”)

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 22/08/2026

we do not know how the ancients crafted their memory in the shape of horned beasts,

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 22/08/2026

in the grim darkness of 2026 there is no ram. to be alive in such times is to be denied a steam machine.

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Greg R. Buchanan @gregbuchananwriter.com · 22/08/2026

the omnissiah blesses with the divine applecare. the emperor protects in this dark age of rising ram prices

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