The Action Reaction Cycle
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When you write, you will usually have a mix of things that are happening around your protagonist (for the purpose of this article, we’ll assume the protagonist is the point of view character in any given scene), and things that your protagonist is thinking and doing. If you don’t know any better, you will switch…
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The action-reaction-processing-decision cycle of table- top RPG
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The cycle of action and reaction
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Updated version of the Action-Reaction Cycle in the context of learning
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Action Reaction Goals
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Adapted from Marc Leman's (2008) Action-Reaction Cycle for embodied
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