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Writing for games, TV and movies (with forays into life and political theatre)...

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

MEGO

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As I discussed in my first book (and maybe my second?) I think that the best way to develop a story, any story, is to tell it over and over...

Odysseus is a comic hero:

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  Odysseus is a comic hero: It's Odysseus's fault he doesn't go straight home, because he just HAS to tell Polyphemus his name A...
Friday, November 08, 2024

No Proscenium

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 Another interesting thing about immersive, experiental theatre:  it is local. So much of the world is now global. There is no proper city i...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

Elan Lee

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  I'm listening to Reality Escape Pod , a podcast about escape rooms. They interview Elan Lee , who co-invented Exploding Kittens, the c...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Boldly to Go

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 I am coming around to the notion that immersive experiences are the Wild West frontier of narrative. Video games have been telling stories ...
Friday, October 04, 2024

Clams

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  Here is a fine list of clams , that is, turns of phrase that were once clever and now, not so much. (Not sure if "not so much" c...
Monday, September 16, 2024

Another reason LLMs are not the future of dialog

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Executives have been trying to get rid of writers ever since moving pictures were a thing. Samuel Goldwyn allegedly threw a writer out of hi...
Friday, June 21, 2024

Delivering the Goods

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I'm watching GODZILLA MINUS ONE. You might think it is a movie about a giant undersea monster with nuclear abilities. But it is actually...
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