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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Do IF writers write?
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Phil Goetz (goetz@cs.buffalo.edu) wrote:
> Anyway, this group focuses on the hi-tech side of IF, and I think that's
> appropriate, but people who want to write good IF should realize that
> they're going to need a long intership studying the basics of story.
> Our "puzzle" mindset may have obscured this, but I think it's true.
>
> I would think people who are serious about writing IF would also
> be serious about writing other types of fiction.  Am I wrong?
> Let me start an informal poll here.  Who of our IF authors also writes
> static fiction?

Not me. The only writing I have done has been for puzzles and games. Some 
of this has been more static than text adventures, though.

I'm certainly serious about *reading* static fiction. And I'm doing it as 
comparison, not contrast. I mean, I read books and think "I want the 
story / writing in my IF to do *this* sort of trick." Or, more often, 
"Damn, I wish the story / writing in my IF were this good." 

--Z

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