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Dave Morris

British Author

Born: Mar 19, 1957

Down Game Me Old World You

Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming James Allen Marcus Buckingham Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf

Storytelling isn't an Escher staircase. Dave Morris

Staircase Storytelling

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

Work You Everything Writer Feeds Interests Your

Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes. Dave Morris

Game Book Burden Long Other Saw Bookshelf Those Daunting Volumes Reached Until Game Of Thrones Granted Hard Nearly

Readers prefer a world they can relate to. Dave Morris

World Relate Readers Prefer

There is a great insatiable hunger for good stories throughout the media. Dave Morris

Good Great Hunger Insatiable Good Stories Throughout Stories Media

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. Dave Morris

You Champion Better Made Somebody Own Nothing Else Willing Clear Nobody Nobody Else Became Because Were Up Than Person Authors Want Story Then Who Publicity Ever Eager Publishers

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer. Dave Morris

Home Library Memory First Volume Myths Hammer Heavy Public Public Library

I could put a sudoku at the end of every chapter and you'd have to solve it to progress through the story, but that doesn't address what would make people want to interact. Dave Morris

You Chapter People Progress Every Address Would Solve Could Through Put Make End Interact Want Story

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. Dave Morris

Angry Relationship Tired You Game Problems First Secondly Those Tell Characters Admire Glaring Empathy Between Like Bugs Got How Story Them Jar Interface Your Show Viewpoint Bars Now Two

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

You Believe Must Would Term Indulgence Fiction Literary Literary Fiction Use

My advice after thirty years in the business is sign with an agency of reasonable size. Dave Morris

Business Advice Thirty Sign Years Size After Agency Reasonable

The writer must be a transcendent, not immanent, deity. Dave Morris

Must Deity Writer Transcendent

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