How Writing and Gaming Are Alike

Writing and gaming has a lot of similarities. If you are fond of hitting the keyboard on your free time, you'll definitely relate each one with one another. For me, I consider the following as my points of comparison.

1.) Start and End

Every game has progressions. From the start to the end, there are different levels and difficulties. Nonetheless, when you developed a mastery of each level you discover patterns which enable you to finish the next challenges.

Writing also has this sort of progression. From the start, you feel clueless about what to write, but when you got your creative juices flowing, you will be able to construct each paragraph with certain ease, until you reach the end of your article.


2.) The hurdles along the way
The challenges in a game are there to make it more exciting. Without them, there'll be not enough fun, and a game will not be worth the time you spent playing it.

Overcoming certain challenges gives you a sense of accomplishment. Thus, in every game, difficult obstacles are always a welcome addition.

In writing, you call this the Writer's Block. Sometimes, you'll find yourself stuck in mid sentence and clueless on what word to follow. To solve this puzzle, you use certain tools like dictionaries or thesaurus and exhaust all possible resources you can get. And after you solve the tricky part, you feel a sense of fulfillment, knowing that you have accepted a challenge and conquered it.

3.) Moves and mastery

In most games, there are certain move patterns that you have to memorize in order to perform special movements. These give you a particular advantage against your opponent, be it the CPU or another player. The more complex the joystick combination, the more effective the result.

Writing also involves a lot of patterns and certain formula to solve them. When you master how different type of sentences are constructed and when you have learned and remembered several vocabularies, you gain a certain type of power to finish paragraphs and the article itself with ease.



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