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Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.

In good writing, the contemplative and the exciting happen at the same time.

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Readers prefer a world they can relate to.

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Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase.

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Interactive storytelling emphasizes a personal connection with the characters. It is a powerful tool that can draw you so deeply into the world of a story that you lose sight of it as a story. You think you are there - at least, if it is done right.

Dave Morris

Motion comics are just cheap animation. Very cheap animation. And I like animation almost as much as I like comics, but I'm not rushing to pay out for a cheap hybrid of the two.

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When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

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Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.

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You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.

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If your agent or publisher is jumping up and down at the thought of your novel, it's because they're picturing the movie poster on the side of the bus.

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Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.

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Six years old, and I already knew that my natural home was the world inside the head.

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'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.

Dave Morris

Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.

Dave Morris

Now, I admire The Sims as a game, but from a story viewpoint, there are two glaring problems. First, your relationship with those characters is like they're bugs in a jar. There's no empathy. And secondly, you've got this clunky, chemistry-set interface between you and them, with bars to show how tired or angry they are. It's all tell not show.

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