Alan Wake, Writer in the Cabin #7

In Alan Wake and Alan Wake Remastered, players can discover seven Writer in the Cabin videos alongside six Night Springs episodes. The former provides glimpses into Wake's missing week, a sneak peek into his revelations, state of mind, and influences. 

Overview 
Alan settles on his journey, wary of the Dark Presence's influence and encouragement. As the writer, he places himself as the protagonist and writes in Thomas Zane to help him.

Location
Collected as part of the story. After investigating the cabin in Episode 4 and finding the wounded man upstairs, the TV will spark to life as you reach the landing again. 

Recording

Transcript:
"I've run through every possible course in my head. If I continue like the Dark Presence wants me to, the story I'm writing won't save Alice. It's a horror story, and it's going to kill her, and me, and everybody in this town. No one will survive. Darkness will consume everything. This is what it's wanted all along. It will be free. Unstoppable. It used Alice to get to me. Dangled her in front of me to keep me going. It was never going to release her. I'm going to change this. I'll escape. 

"I've written myself into the story. I'm now the protagonist. This feels like a terrible risk but it's the only way to save Alice. I'll be bound by the events of the story just as much as anyone else who's been woven into it. The story must stay true for this to work. There have to be victims along the way, near escapes, cliffhangers. In a horror story, it can't be certain that the hero will succeed or even survive. He almost has to die. I'll write my own escape into the story next. I'll need help. Zane's going to be the one who will help me. I'll make it happen."

Notes:

• Script Note. The original script provides a direction for how the scene appears; "The light recedes, almost as if it was shining from behind the TV set. On the screen, the study of the Bird Leg Cabin can be seen, as though through a stationary security camera hidden in the wall. The desk is framed by the two round windows. Beyond the windows, there’s only darkness. Wake is looking at the camera, a close-up. The “Touched” effect is flickering now and again."

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Alan Wake, Writer in the Cabin #6

In Alan Wake and Alan Wake Remastered, players can discover seven Writer in the Cabin videos alongside six Night Springs episodes. The former provides glimpses into Wake's missing week, a sneak peek into his revelations, state of mind, and influences. 

Overview 
After spending days in the Dark Place, Alan becomes aware that something is wrong, particularly with the editor he placed his faith in. 

Location
Collected as part of the story. As Alan returns to his room in Cauldron Lake Lodge, instructed to by Dr Hartman, the TV to the side of the stairs will burst to life. 

Recording

Transcript:
"Something's wrong. I'm not myself. It's hard to think. There's- there's a shadow inside my head. I can only focus on writing; everything else is a blur. I'm trapped in this cabin. Have been for days, but it's... always dark outside. My editor is real. I saw her again, she's not human... it's not human. A dark presence is wearing the old woman's face. She was covered in clinging shadows. There's a hole in her chest where her heart should be. I think I've made a horrible mistake. I don't think I'm any closer to saving Alice. It's been lying to me. Using me to get the story it wants, and the story will come true."

Notes:

• Script Note. The original script provides a direction for how the scene appears; "The light recedes, almost as if it was shining from behind the TV set. On the screen, the study of the Bird Leg Cabin can be seen, as though through a stationary security camera hidden in the wall. The desk is framed by the two round windows. Beyond the windows, there’s only darkness. Wake is looking at the camera, a close-up. The “Touched” effect is flickering now and again."
  
  
• Delayed Placement. The TV set was originally meant to be placed inside of Alan's room at Cauldron Lake Lodge. The decision to place it in the corridor allows for Hartman's theory on how Alan came to be in his care to be plausible. 

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Alan Wake, Writer in the Cabin #5

In Alan Wake and Alan Wake Remastered, players can discover seven Writer in the Cabin videos alongside six Night Springs episodes. The former provides glimpses into Wake's missing week, a sneak peek into his revelations, state of mind, and influences. 

Overview 
Taking a quick writing break, Alan is able to explore the downstairs of the cabin. In his search, he finds a shoebox filled with work by Thomas Zane.

Location
Collected as part of the story. When travelling to the Mirror Peak lookout, Alan can collect resources inside a wooden building. The TV will automatically turn on. 

Recording

Transcript:
"Anything outside of writing is a struggle, I feel ill. I managed to make my way downstairs. There's a shoebox filled with books and papers by Thomas Zane. It's very hard to focus, but I managed to read some of it. He's a poet, and a good one! He writes of muses and creators, summoning fabulous things from a magic lake. Using his powers to shape the world of a realm of Gods and dreams and demons. Dark things that wait for a chance to slip through, wearing the flesh of men as disguise. Zane writes about himself; his girlfriend being taken over by a dark presence, about growing scared of the lake. Zane believes it's a mirror to the gaping void of darkness above, where some Lovecraftian presence lurks. I crawled back upstairs. I'll borrow these things for my story. They ring true. They fit."

Notes:

• Script Note. The original script provides a direction for how the scene appears; "The light recedes, almost as if it was shining from behind the TV set. On the screen, the study of the Bird Leg Cabin can be seen, as though through a stationary security camera hidden in the wall. The desk is framed by the two round windows. Beyond the windows, there’s only darkness. Wake is looking at the camera, a close-up. The “Touched” effect is flickering now and again."

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Alan Wake, Writer in the Cabin #4

In Alan Wake and Alan Wake Remastered, players can discover seven Writer in the Cabin videos alongside six Night Springs episodes. The former provides glimpses into Wake's missing week, a sneak peek into his revelations, state of mind, and influences.

Overview 
Alan becomes aware of an editor looming near him, Barbara Jagger, who edits his work.

Location
Collected as part of the story. Collected as Alan stirs from Rose's bedroom. 

Recording

Transcript:
"I can't tell reality from dream anymore, but it seems that I have an imaginary editor to help me. She's an old woman in a funeral dress. I call her Barbara Jagger. She's very strict. I'm writing faster and faster, my manuscript is being heavily revised. The edits are getting very aggressive, and each day there's less more of her. I hate it... but I know she's right. She promises me I can save Alice this way. She knows more of this than I do. About the complex incantation, I'm attempting. About this place. She's worked with another writer under similar circumstances, Thomas Zane. The genre of the story seems to be shifting. It's turning into a horror story. I'm getting close. I can feel it."

Notes:

• Script Note. The original script provides a direction for how the scene appears; "The light recedes, almost as if it was shining from behind the TV set. On the screen, the study of the Bird Leg Cabin can be seen, as though through a stationary security camera hidden in the wall. The desk is framed by the two round windows. Beyond the windows, there’s only darkness. Wake is looking at the camera, a close-up. The “Touched” effect is flickering now and again."

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Alan Wake, Writer in the Cabin #3

In Alan Wake and Alan Wake Remastered, players can discover seven Writer in the Cabin videos alongside six Night Springs episodes. The former provides glimpses into Wake's missing week, a sneak peek into his revelations, state of mind, and influences.

Overview 
Alan learns about the constraints of writing a story that shapes reality, and what the risk may be.

Location
Collected as part of the story. As Alan collects the keys from the bathrooms at the end of Episode 2, the TV will suddenly spring to life. 

Recording

Transcript:
"A story is not a machine that does what you tell it. A story is a... beast with a life of its own. You can create it. Shape it. But as the story grows, it starts wanting things of its own. Change one thing and you set off a chain reaction of events that spreads through the whole thing. The characters have to be true to themselves. The events need to follow on logic that fits the story. A single flaw and the magic is gone, the story dies... Alice dies.

Notes:

• Script Note. The original script provides a direction for how the scene appears; "The light recedes, almost as if it was shining from behind the TV set. On the screen, the study of the Bird Leg Cabin can be seen, as though through a stationary security camera hidden in the wall. The desk is framed by the two round windows. Beyond the windows, there’s only darkness. Wake is looking at the camera, a close-up. The “Touched” effect is flickering now and again."

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Alan Wake, Writer in the Cabin #2

In Alan Wake and Alan Wake Remastered, players can discover seven Writer in the Cabin videos alongside six Night Springs episodes. The former provides glimpses into Wake's missing week, a sneak peek into his revelations, state of mind, and influences.

Overview 
Determined to save Alice and feeling potential in his surroundings, Alan pushes on to write the story. 

Location
Collected as part of the story. As Alan returns to the sheriff's station, the TV in the jail room corridor will come alive. 

Recording

Transcript:
"The writer is a light that reveals the world of his stories from darkness. Shapes it from nothingness. The way a sculpture carves a statue from a block of granite. If I stop, the world I'm making dies. Darkness will reclaim it. It's a long hard journey into the dark. Alice's life is at stake, but I can't think about that, or I'll lose it. The dread lingers at the edge of perception. I'll push on. Anything is possible here. I'll write the story. I'll save her."

Notes:

• Script Note. The original script provides a direction for how the scene appears; "The light recedes, almost as if it was shining from behind the TV set. On the screen, the study of the Bird Leg Cabin can be seen, as though through a stationary security camera hidden in the wall. The desk is framed by the two round windows. Beyond the windows, there’s only darkness. Wake is looking at the camera, a close-up. The “Touched” effect is flickering now and again."

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Alan Wake, Writer in the Cabin #1

In Alan Wake and Alan Wake Remastered, players can discover seven Writer in the Cabin videos alongside six Night Springs episodes. The former provides glimpses into Wake's missing week, a sneak peek into his revelations, state of mind, and influences. 

Overview 
Trapped in a cabin surrounded by darkness, Alan continues to write, encouraged by the feeling of Alice being near.

Location
Collected as part of the story. As Alan enters Stucky's Gas Station and comments on the destruction, the TV near the doorway bursts to life. 

Recording

Transcript:
"I'll write. I'll keep writing. Outside there's only darkness. Outside the cabin, outside the story, there's only darkness. I can feel her presence in the dark. Just now, I could smell her perfume in the room. I'll reach her, I'll fix it, I'll- I'll bring her back. The story will come true. If I stop, she's lost."

Notes:

• Script Note. The original script provides a direction for the scene; "intimate, urgent, disturbed but keeping his voice down, as if talking on the phone but trying not to be overheard by someone in the next room."
  
  
• Comment. Alan's voiceover comments after the scene, "It’d been me on the TV, talking crazy. Was I losing my mind?"

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