Simon de la Rouviere (simondlr)

Touching Grass in Azeroth: https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/touching-grass-in-azeroth WoW: Forever's design choices mimic a similar trend IRL. Refocusing social dynamism against impersonal quality-of-life improvements. What lessons are in there?

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As I'm wrapping up my 2nd book for querying, I'm thinking about the development of creative intuition. That's what I'm focusing on for the August newsletter! Enjoy! https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/intuition-i-think

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Wrapping up 3 years of on and off writing on my second novel. I wrote up some extensive thoughts for it, for my July newsletter! Enjoy! https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/writing-a-novel-in-2026-feels-a-bit

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Slowly emerging back online after a 485km walk and some much needed time with family. Will be changing things up a bit. Stay tuned. 🤗

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Successful media always spoke for us in some way. In 2024, I think it's even more important. In this week's newsletter I tackle media saturation and theorise on why some media is being instantly memory-holed. https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/media-saturation-and-having-media

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After a year of writing, I finally finished the first draft of my new novel this week. So, I wrote a bit more about how I approach novel drafts for this week's newsletter! Enjoy! https://sceneswithsimon.com/p/on-novel-drafts-and-trails

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I think there's space for civic organisations that only specialise in holding citizen's assemblies independent of state/government. - Provides tools for sortition over a population. - Provides frameworks for deliberation. - Provides dashboards for representation/legitimation. Wonder if any exist?

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