John Hedge

Join the Playhouse Writing Group In 2026, the Playhouse will begin hosting Writing Groups on our Discord Server. The groups will be made up of around 4-6 people and will then be given support to set up their own goals, check-in style...

If you’d like to join a writing community, the @miskatonicplayhouse.com will be hosting Writing Groups in 2026. You can apply to join below:
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3) It’s dangerous to go alone

It’s not surprising that the people that managed to complete the challenge were the same ones hanging around the Discord, chatting to each other every day. By creating community, they gave themselves a reason to come back and engage.

2) The best response to a bad day is to have a good day

Everyone is going to have bad days. The best response to having had one day is to make sure that we have a good day the day after. Getting us back on track.

1) Most people aren’t writing every day.

A lot of creatives end up feeling guilty if they can’t squeeze out a solid section of writing every day. Stop that. The golden rule is to know that you have good and bad days and you must accept them both.

How to write more — Miskatonic Playhouse Every November, the Playhouse hosts a writing challenge. We gather a group of like-minded horror writers onto our Discord server and we challenge ourselves to write every day. After a challenging pers...

An introspection on the @miskatonicplayhouse.com November Writing challenge, plus a few solid takeaways for anyone wanting to be a prolific writer:
www.miskatonicplayhouse.com/blog/how-to-write-more

Coming soon: Call of the Black Wing - An Audiobook Bringing the tale of Fiadh and her quest for revenge though Scottish folklore and mythology to your ears

The big reveal!

What I've been up to for the past month is getting this project ready to go and now I'm finally ready to announce it.

Coming February 2026 - the Kickstarter for the Call of the Black Wing audiobook read by @mhairi-bee.bsky.social launches!

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The Dream-Quest of the Playhouse — Miskatonic Playhouse When the Miskatonic Playhouse was founded back in 2022, our aim was World Domination to play Community Content for Call of Cthulhu 7e. Each year we’ve been iterating and changing, searching for som...

Happy December! Here at the Playhouse we’re quietly planning 2026.

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Get back to the desk where I chained you up! How did you even get free?

Six months since I last posted. I hope nobody is follow me for content 😅.

If you are, good news! I'm challenging myself in December to an Advent(ure) Challenge, where I'll write one dungeon every day.

Quintessential Curios #1, the first zine from @watchwellgames.com, is live! It was a ton of fun to work on this, and there's some great content by amazing people (also me). It's 40% off until Sunday, so get it while it's hot off the digital presses!
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The Quintessential Curios: Zine #1 - Watch Well Games | DriveThruRPG This zine is for Gamemasters looking for timeless system-agnostic adventures to run for their players. Whether you're a veteran GM or new to tabletop RPGs, this zine was created with you in mind. Key ...

Even better, the Zine is 40% off for the first two weeks. So get it here: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

Sneak peek from "Too See amongst the Star" by John Hedge The planet is a barren wasteland. Seemingly endless ruins levelled to nothing and everything covered by an endless black mist. That is, everything except one small green dot near the equator, which holds back the endless darkness. It is towards this green dot that the small crew of the SS Odysseus find themselves hurtling as their ship comes in for an emergency landing. Below that is a drawing of an older man. The cover for Quintessential curios is in the bottom right corner

I wrote it up, called it To See Amongst the Stars and it's been published in the first ever @watchwellgames.com Zine.

The Quintessential Curios

YouTube video by Symphony Entertainment Symphony Sonatas: 60 Min of Improvised Horror w/ Conductor John Hedge | I Move the Stars for No One

So hey, back in February I did an improvised horror scenario over on @symphonyhorror.bsky.social's Twitch channel.
It was a resounding success and we were all freaked out.

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Sharing our space for #SelfPromoSaturday time for all #ttrpg - whether #indierpg or small publishers 💖

Mingle with others & celebrate our hobby🎲

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@miskatonicplayhouse.com is worth checking for actual plays of community written content for Call of Cthulhu - a large variety of scenarios that haven't been played elsewhere.

@lightlessbeacons.bsky.social does great long-form scenarios with high production quality.

❤️

I’ll send you the full Embers rules. They’re finished. I’ve just not published.

I guess it was probably just jealousy

I honestly thought the bit in the middle where @tanewman.bsky.social screamed ‘Dave Kirby sucks ass, how did this get an Ennie, I’ve written better scenarios in my sleep’ was a bit rude.

okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form:

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Day 8: Now that's what I call a successful day. Somewhere around 2500 words added and the 2nd scenario wrapped. I'll review it later. For now, we can move on to the 3rd scenario. 8.5/10

Day 7:
Didn't want to write. Wrote anyway. Two short sessions netted me 800 words as I continue to chip away at this final section. 5/10

I’m just here waiting for the snow to fall so Sweden can feel normal again.

Day 3 of my small Swedish town being blanketed by a fog that would make a mid-2000s horror game proud.

Day 6:
A reasonably productive day. Around 1000 words as well as some solid study time of Cthulhu magic 6/10
Also, my house has been thoroughly cleaned due to procrastination.

Day 5: No progress at all on the main draft due to life getting in the way. Awarded myself one bonus points for making progress on another project 1/10

Day 4: A solid morning session, added over 1000 words to the draft and located a new book for research. 6/10

Day 3 report:
The difficult section finally got a bit of a flow going. Around 1200 words committed to paper and a new research book chosen. 7/10

Day 2 report:
Successfully bashing out segments that just refused to be written in the first pass. Rapidly approaching the difficult section that doesn’t seem to want to get written at all. Have noted some areas that need another pass. 7/10

Day 1 report:
~600 new words + project plan now entirely on Scrivener.
Giving myself a 6/10 and keeping open the possibility of getting a bit of light editing done this eve.