Author photo of Marija Solarevic, a Croatian writer and narrative designer, by Marko Jandric. The author is pictured sitting down on a bench in a Zagreb public park. 
Writing and design

Welcome, traveler

 👋 I’m Marija but you may know me as Solaire if we ever played online games together. I’m a creative writer specialized in interactive experiences.

I work with what people often call copy, script, content, or just plain text. This includes both writing the story and dialogue parts and UX/UI content for games or software.

My little narrative workshop is all about creative problem solving (and a little bit of cognitive science). I’m here to show you the difference good content can make for your project.

If you are looking for someone who can set up a memorable story or just make sense of the confusing text on your screens, get in touch.

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“But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.”

- Lord Byron

Writing and design services

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    Narrative design

    Designing experiences, systems, and atmosphere in games, films, theatre, and more.

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    Interactive writing

    Writing for dynamic stories like visual novels, games, hypertext adventures, and other interactive experiences.

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    UX writing and content design

    Solving business problems with wording in your product interfaces.

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    Screen, stage, and fiction

    Screenwriting, playwriting, and creative fiction in traditional formats.

Bio

Marija Solarevic is an award-winning writer, narrative designer, and member of the Croatian Screenwriters and Playwrights Guild. For over a decade now, she has been writing text for games and enterprise-level software.

In 2010, she earned a bachelor’s degree in pedagogy and ethnology/cultural anthropology. Her writing career was kicked off in 2014 by placing first in a science fiction short story competition organized by the Zagreb City Libraries. The winning story explored a community of space pioneer descendants, now stranded in space, whose desperate circumstances only intensify their yearning to return to Earth.

After that, she started to work on video game screenplays and player experience for mobile free-to-play games with long, seemingly never-ending storylines. This work included extensive narrative and content design, script doctoring, collection design, voice-over dialogues, and story refactoring.

Marija also had a playwriting debut with a short theater run back in 2019/2020.

As a writing mentor, she helped around 30 writers from all around the world learn the craft and work with confidence in their chosen professions. 

Today, Marija works as a senior UX writer. In her free time, she enjoys reading, gardening, and writing stories for video games.

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