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18.26: Broadening Your Writing Wheelhouse: Video Game Dialogue, RPG Adventures, & More

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How to Signal the Direction in Which You Want People to Go

I think of this as narrative wayfinding, right? So wayfinding is a design technique that helps signal people where they should be going. If you run contrary to their expectations, they will get frustrated and stop reading your book. I have learned from game writing so much about how to change the reader's attitude about characters. How do you make them love a side character? What are those little tricks? And so there is a lot that can kind of cross-pollinate between different formats and so on.

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