How Edgar Rice Burroughs became one of the twentieth century’s biggest scifi authors
In 1911, a 36-year old loser, his latest business venture crumbling into insolvency, started to while away his idle hours at the office by writing a novel for the then-new “pulp” magazines. It was about a man going to Mars. The story he wrote, a swashbuckling tale of action, adventure, and romance set on the…
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John Marr
How is writing for video games similar to writing for comics?
Marv Wolfman is a comics legend for his work on Teen Titans, Superman and many others. For a half-dozen years, he’s been writing for video games, and he explains how both kinds of writing are about characters more than plot. I’ve played games since the first coin machine version of Pong. Like most I wasted…
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Marv Wolfman