Andrea Phillips is a transmedia writer, game designer and author. She is on the writing team for season 2 of the urban fantasy serial Bookburners as well as ReMade. Her debut novel is Revision, an SF thriller about a wiki where your edits come true. She has also worked on iOS fitness games Zombies, Run! and The Walk; The Maester’s Path for HBO’s Game of Thrones; human rights game America 2049; and the independent commercial ARG Perplex City. She also writes an ongoing column about video games called Metagames for Strange Horizons. Her nonfiction book A Creator’s Guide to Transmedia Storytelling is used to teach digital storytelling at universities around the world. You can find Andrea at andreaphillips.com, or on Twitter at @andrhia.
Do you remember back in the Episode 9 notes when I said "Whiteout" took me three days to write? Magic all the way through? "Memories of Arcadia" is magic, too, but it's the kind that needs a little blood and suffering from you before it works.
Cole discovers some unsettling answers at a museum.
The remade explore the city while Loki exposes his past
I came in to the ReMade writers room when it was about halfway through writing the first season as a guest--one who was made to feel very welcome. “Put your feet up,” everyone said. “Which character are you interested in? What do you want to do?”
Seyah does some reflecting and the group takes a bath.
Sometimes writing is like trying to carve your name into stone using a dull spoon. Sometimes writing is like a bolt of magic going through you, as if you were just a gateway for something to bring itself into the world.
May learns a harsh lesson about never leaving a man behind.
Obviously I always want to produce my best work for this series, and in anything I write, but full disclosure: I felt even more pressure on this one for a few reasons.
Hyrum makes a disturbing observation and Inez takes a risk.
Every story has a rock bottom. You know, the moment where things are at their most dire. The moment when the magic sword breaks, or the MC’s one true love decides to move to Kankakee, or the last ditch escape vehicle dies right in the middle of a horde of zombies. There’s that moment when things get really bad, and it seems like there’s just no hope.
The remades regroup aboard their getaway train – and meet the new arrivals.
