Dave Morris
Dave Morris
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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.
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When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.
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'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.
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When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.
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What we love is when we can sell people a multi-media package,
designer mention nod
When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'
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Our grand openings are stacked all day long with cars. It definitely creates a big buzz.
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I was a nervous wreck until she said it was the real thing,
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There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media.
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People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat - and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it's not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I'm creating modern videogames.
authors requires standing
Standing out as a writer today requires more than a bright idea and limpid prose. Authors need to become businesspeople as well.
valid work
'Frankenstein' is a work rich in possible meanings, so the horror-show interpretation is as valid as any.
bad parenting rise troubled
Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.
indulgence
Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.