Canadian - Writer | October 20, 1980 -
A shot-down advance doesn't have to mean the end of a relationship, right? You can still be friends, as long as you're not dumb about it.
Ryan North
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Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.
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It's good to have hobbies.
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I've always found it funny when people call 'Romeo and Juliet' 'the greatest love story ever told' because - man - it does not work out well for those kids, you know? I'd like to think the greatest love story ever told would at least let them be together for more than a few hours.
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My first book, 'To Be or Not To Be,' took 'Hamlet' and converted it to the choose-your-own-path format. It was a great fit for a book where you control what happens - a book as game - because the plot of 'Hamlet' is very game-like: get a mission from a ghost to kill the final boss, kill the final boss, and game over. You win.
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The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates.
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The idea of taking command of your life and doing something that you're not sure if you can do and you're not really sure if you should do it, I think is pretty timeless. We all face those doubts often, if not constantly.
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The first mp3 I downloaded, which I guess was illegal, was a symphonic rendering of the Super Mario Brothers 1-1 theme song. It was great. I was like, 'This is blowing MIDI files out of the water. This is the future, right here.'
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If you're going to be adapting something across media, you should at least have the moves that people want you to hit and that you want to hit.
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Yes, I've won prizes for putting words on a computer.
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This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.
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You can have an idea that everyone else thinks is dumb, and it's still a good idea.
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