Writing Excuses Episode 31: talking RPG and game writing with Steve Jackson

From http://www.writingexcuses.com/2008/09/07/writing-excuses-episode-31-talking-rpg-and-game-writing-with-steve-jackson/

Key Notes: Tell a good story first, don't try to write for game adaptation. To write game modules or materials, read the website guidelines. The biggest challenge in any writing is clarity, clarity, clarity. Put up signposts and color, and let your GM (or reader) adapt it their own way.
( roll the dice . . . )

A number of off-microphone grumbles and sighs finished off the session.

That's Cinderella?

I saw a preview -- an ad for an upcoming show -- on Japanese TV today. Apparently they're going to have a young starlet drop in on a teenage girl, look through her wardrobe, and then take her out and buy her a new outfit. Cinderella . . . the consumer version?

What bothered me was that the girl on the ad seemed to be reasonably nicely dressed, her wardrobe didn't seem that bad, and the glimpse of the "after" outfit -- I guess ragged and oversize is stylish? I mean, I think she looked better before :-)

I wonder if she gets to drop a slipper somewhere for "Prince Charming" to try to find her, too.