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Dr. Emily Friedman
@ecfriedman.com

Today is the 1st anniversary of my very 1st #ttrpg piece written for the public, where I tried out the style I’m honing for my book on Actual Play — inspired by my late friend, essayist @WilliamBradley. (Spoilers for end of #CriticalRole Campaign...

Dr. Emily Friedman
@ecfriedman.com

“To write, and to write about stuff that mattered to me, even if it strikes some as silly or lowbrow. The world changes fast, and life as we know it changes before we have time to register.” — William Bradley, “On Soap Operas, or, We Read and Watch Our Stories in Order to Live”

Dr. Emily Friedman
@ecfriedman.com

You can read Bill’s essay — that weaves together soap operas, the parasocial before we talked in those terms, his own experiences with cancer, memory, the labor of all art, an embrace of “low” & “high” unreservedly, & love, always...

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Dr. Emily Friedman
@ecfriedman.com

Here's part of the first draft of my essay, when I thought it was epistolary (a nod to the longest novel in English, which I worked on before I worked on far-longer #ttrpg actual plays), & it was a letter to Bill.