Today I was at the local bookstore. As I was looking for a copy of Homer’s Odysseia, I came accross a section dedicated to Orhan Pamuk, the Nobel-Prize winning turkish author. An illustration on the backcover of his book Kar (Snow, published in 2002) suddenly catched my attention. Here it is:
Illustration from the backcover of Orhan Pamuk's novel Kar (Snow) dating back to the year 2002.
The cover artist combined a stylized snowflake with the names of characters and sections in the story. I don’t know wether it was Pamuk’s own idea. But suddenly I heard myself saying: “Stories are like snowflakes: They all look alike, but still each one of them is unique.”
More than that, I think a snowflake model could be useful for game writers that work on stories with “branching” structures.
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“Stories are like snowflakes: They all look alike, but still each one of them is unique.”
Tuggy – bu muhteşem bir blog. Ich hab nur schnell drüber”gelesen”, genauso wie ich es tue, wenn ich im H&M bin: der Laserblick einer Frau weiss genau ob sich etwas im Laden findet, das gefaellt :)
Das hier is wertvoll.
Ich küsse Dich…
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Ha, du bisch ja scho do :) Ich dachte Du siehst das erst morgen früh oder so…
Freut mich dass Dir mein “Online-Laden” hier gefallen hat. Er ist echt irgendwie mein Juwel im Moment. Er wiederspiegelt viel von dem Monolog in mir. Sehr wertvoll für mich. ;) Und er wird noch viel viel besser werden, echt.
Ich hoffe yakında görüşürüz!
Ich dich auch, Kleines, see ya!