Although to be fair I mostly had an inkling of MMO writing because I've done comics before so I suppose I had an advantage in long-form storytelling in a way
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In my experience with comics though, you usually have a good plotted path of major points that should happen, but you leave room for the how you get from a to b so you can fill it in with what works best and what you want at any given moment
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It's a careful balance of knowing where the narrative is going while leaving yourself enough flexibility to change/adjust things as you see fit when you're going along
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So when say, for example, a person you'd written a cameo for suddenly goes looloo, you can quietly omit them from the script altogether and no one is the wiser save them and yourself (Yes, this happened to me, they went from friend to weirdly aggressive with the love bombing)
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You WANT to leave yourself space. ESPECIALLY in long form, because it gives you room to see what questions the audience are asking and decide which ones need to be addressed and address them
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By leaving yourself room you can make sure the story remains satisfying, while still following that high level narrative you've blocked out.
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It's different with a novel because that's delivered all at once, not piecemeal - your audience can absorb the story as a whole in one sitting, all the answers are there for them.
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In a way I suspect it's a little easier with a novel on a freedom level - you dictate everything that happens without having to navigate outside input. But long form writing is fun to me BECAUSE of that dance - it's why I enjoy it.
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Yeah absolutely. But it was really poorly communicated during that interview. It is gonna paint people's opinion and the way they consume the narrative for quite a while.
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And that's fine - we'll just keep doing our jobs over here! XD
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