Dave Morris
Dave Morris
buying cheese ordinary people selling
When I was in France, ... people selling the cheese and buying the cheese were ordinary people, not sophisticates.
love people sell
What we love is when we can sell people a multi-media package,
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.
indulgence
Literary fiction - if we must use the term - is not the plotless, meandering indulgence that its detractors would have you believe.
forms full
A well-written novel, the most immersive of all forms of storytelling, should command your full attention and belief.
confining creators earlier knew medium period stretching struggling uncharted unlearn
A new medium always has a period when it is struggling inside the confining box of an earlier medium. Creators have to unlearn what they knew before they can see the fresh, uncharted vistas stretching before them.
dear
Have confidence in your strengths, dear writer, or give it all up now and create apps instead.
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.'