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May 2024
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884. Interactive Storytelling

PILAR ALESSANDRA
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Joe Gold’s “Shakespeare Inc.” offers sixteen variations of a story. Hear how he wrote it, how “choose your own adventure” storytelling is structured and how this approach can work for video-game and screenwriting.

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