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About Josiah

Josiah Lebowitz is a writer and game designer. He currently operates his own indie studio (Pen and Sword Games) while teaching game design and doing contract work for various other companies. His past projects include tie-in novellas for EverQuest Next, the game Car Washer: Summer of the Ninja, and the books Interactive Storytelling for Video Games and The Verities Silex trilogy.

Writing Style

As mentioned, I’ve been doing a lot of script editing lately.  I think there’s a good chance that Aurora’s Nightmare will need more editing passes than most of my stories.  The reason being the writing style.  I generally write in third-person past tense and the first-person present tense style of visual novels is very different.  While I’m generally happy with how the script is turning out, there’s a lot of grammar and structural things that need tweaking here and there as I adjust to the style.  For now, I’ve got a handful of pages left to edit.  After that, I’ll see what my demo beta testers think and go from there.