What I’ve Learned About Game Design as a Hearing Person Rating Deaf Accessibility

An essay examining what I believe is the essential shift America needs to make in order for healthcare to become accessible for all of us, published on Medium.

https://medium.com/@cl_craven/cancel-culture-coming-soon-hopefully-to-the-healthcare-industry-4979dbc7387e

I wrote about my experience of rewriting my antagonist for my MFA thesis and what I learned from the approach I took to learning about him for The Writing Cooperative.

https://writingcooperative.com/writing-villains-with-a-touch-of-humanity-514cb37ec247?fbclid=IwAR1p7R6Oi0VwFXNi2mZkPIBoMqb3g_9UVu0pNYCzS0jw_LyC733mDCLLGmI

This piece is about using video games as a coping mechanism for mental illness, published in Can I Play That?

Collecting Warframes for OCPD

An essay about revisiting the life I had to leave behind due to lupus and the catharsis of a good video game world, published in Can I Play That?

You Can’t Go Home – Revisiting the Life I Left Behind in RDR2

New nonfiction in The Writing Cooperative.

https://writingcooperative.com/video-games-can-make-you-a-better-writer-5266b0969cb5

A sample of my ghost-writing and editing, about a woman’s experience as a schizophrenic person and how she saw herself in the video game, Prey. Published in Can I Play That?

Playing with Schizophrenia in Prey

A short essay examining an encounter I had while waiting for the train. Published on Medium.

https://medium.com/@cl_cole/an-open-letter-to-the-woman-who-thought-i-would-be-her-white-protector-5365c7c2068c