Inside the Workshop

The practical side of creating Max Aura Dungeon with AI: the ideas that worked, the chapters that didn’t, and the strange problems that appeared along the way.

These six essays explore what happens between the first idea and the version I am willing to share. Read them in order, or follow whatever catches your curiosity.

Inside the Workshop

The Writing Process
Where an idea becomes a scene — and why an apparently finished draft may be only the beginning.
Character Bibles & Worldbuilding
Keeping a strange world and its stranger inhabitants consistent.
Revisions & Rewrites
Changing direction, discarding scenes and discovering the better version.
When Characters Stop Sounding Like Themselves
Why plausible dialogue can still belong to the wrong person.
The Problem with ‘Not’
When an attempted correction leaves the invisible editing conversation on the page.
Creative Freedom, Ethics & Censorship
How tools, rules and expectations shape the possibilities of a story.

These are my own experiences with the writing process. The companion series, Art, Meaning & Machines, moves from the workshop to the larger questions about art and creativity.