your game writing portfolio isn't working (yet): part one

it's not about listing everything you've ever written or random snippets: it's about showing you can tell stories, even using the building blocks of your past

You’ve probably seen countless tips about game writing portfolios—what to include, how to format them, whether you need multiple versions.

The trouble is, sometimes in our hunt for answers, we can lose sight of the bigger work we need to do. There is a comfort in the totems and talismans of specific points given the alternative of 'oh god I am now think…