Once I am happy with the text, I’ll be able to copy and paste it into RPG Maker. I managed to get a couple of key scenes written before making dinner (and quickly edited one after dinner). Final Draft has been the perfect tool for my current needs because I don’t have to think about formatting, I can just focus on writing the words right now (and I can very easily edit whatever I write). I forgot how easy it is to read a script for dialogue. Sure, it took a few minutes to remember how the program worked (it has literally been YEARS since I last used it), but that was no big deal I was back up and writing in no time! And then I remembered: I have Final Draft! Why not write the cut scenes with that? So first I thought to try using Chat Mapper, but that wasn’t a great fit when I started (I was thinking about the mechanics of how the program worked more than actually writing). I didn’t feel like writing the cut scenes in RPG Maker right now because I wanted a bit more flexibility for editing. The only one I have somewhat built is the one I showed you in my post about tinting the screen (and that literally has “blah blah blah” as most of the dialogue). So after my paper prototyping adventures last night, I felt like I was ready to actually work on a few of the important cut scenes in Memories. I had a lot of fun writing it (it’s currently over 900 words!) I’m hoping to get it edited and up on the site over the weekend. So I ended up writing the first draft of the sample in Word. Last night I played around with TyranoBuilder a bit, thinking I could build it there, but I don’t think there’s a way to export the dialogue (and I wasn’t planning on writing an entire Visual Novel, although that might be something to try in the future). Unfortunately I don’t currently have access to that capability, so I had to use a different program instead. rtf (I was really hoping to see what the output would look like with branching dialogue). I was going to write the sample in Chat Mapper, with the intention of exporting it as a. I was specifically looking for more of a real-world idea, but ended up finding a fun romantic dialogue prompt instead. Two nights ago I went looking for writing prompts to use as a starting point. So I decided to set to work remedying this. Unfortunately I am unable to showcase them as samples. I have written a couple of pieces over the years that I think would have better met what these people were looking for. Currently on my website, I have three samples: two are character biographies that were developed for different games, and the other is made up of actual scenes from a game (mainly dialogue with a bit of branching narrative). Unfortunately in both cases, my available samples did not meet their needs (one person requested samples with romantic dialogue, while the other was looking for non-fantasy samples). I directed them to my main website,, so they could see what I had readily available. Over the last month or so, I’ve had a couple of different people ask me for game writing samples.