Dave Morris
Dave Morris
The writer must be a transcendent, not immanent, deity.
authors became eager publicity publishers somebody willing
Publishers were ever eager for authors to do their own publicity because nobody else was willing to do it for nothing. But then it became clear that if you want somebody to champion the story, there's nobody better than the person who made it all up.
prefer readers relate
Readers prefer a world they can relate to.
blaze narrative trajectory
'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narrative trajectory would come down in a blaze of fireworks.
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There's lots of small and large opportunities. I don't think we're fully tapped it out, ... We are talking to video game companies about sports-content games. So far we haven't talked to video game companies yet about the swimsuit franchise, but I imagine it'll probably come up.
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There's lots of opportunity for the swimsuit franchise to make it even bigger without making it more frequent. We call it the Super Bowl of print. People will create ads just for this issue, just like they do for super bowl ads. If you add to the frequency, won't be as special.
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I was proud with the way we played, ... We played with a lot of heart and leadership. I'm proud of our entire roster, who stepped up. We had some freshmen make some nice plays and we had some injured players step in.
indulgence
Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
letting trick unfold viewer
It is easy to force a reader or viewer to interact. The trick is in making them want to interact, and in letting the story unfold hand-in-hand with that.
dear
Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.
valid work
'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.
core feels growing pace values
But we're still growing at a pace that feels comfortable to us, and maintains the core values and concepts.
name named series time
One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', is also the name of my company, and the reason we named the company after it is that it was pretty revolutionary for its time.
almost comics hybrid motion rushing
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.