Live To Write Another Day by Dean Orion (books to read in your 20s female .txt) 📗

writing staff could concentrate and expand upon the storylines where you’re getting the most enthusiastic response.

This is the kind of revolutionary storytelling that interactive technology gives us. Now it’s up to us, as writers, to take advantage of this monumental opportunity and create the defining entertainment mediums of the future.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Fresh out of the wonderful academic cocoon of Bates College in 1986, Dean Orion began his career as a professional writer by crafting copy for a local ad agency in his native Long Island by day and hopping trains to The Lee Strasberg Creative Center in New York City, where his first play, Weekend In My Mind, was produced by night.

After moving to Los Angeles in 1988 to attend The American Film Institute, briefly working for CBS Productions, and successfully mounting another of his plays, A Comedy Of Eros at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, Dean soon discovered that the long and very eclectic winding road of his career was only just beginning.

With the sale of Maelstrom in 1995, an original graphical adventure game purchased by special effects company Digital Domain, Dean suddenly found himself telling stories in remarkably new ways. Since then he has written, designed, produced, and directed an extensive and wide array of interactive content for CD-ROM, DVD, online, and console games.

Dean’s interactive credits include such console titles as Van Helsing and Mission Impossible: Operation Surma; massively multiplayer online games, Guild Wars and Aion; Nintendo DS and Wii titles iCarly and The Penguins Of Madagascar; as well as numerous casual online games for Hollywood marketing campaigns, including such notable tent poles as The X-Files, Men In Black, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mission To Mars, and Independence Day, just to name a few.

Managing this split personality between writing traditional linear and non-linear interactive content has never been easy, but Dean has always found a way to do both, writing freelance episodes of such television shows as The Invisible Man for Syfy, Thought Crimes for USA Network, and Jackie Chan Adventures for WB Kids. Recently, Dean wrote the American pilot for the internationally acclaimed animated television series Ben and Izzy for Rubicon Studios, and penned Newburgh and I Am An American Soldier, two short films for The National Museum of The United States Army.

Dean’s unique background has also led him into the world of themed entertainment, where he has worked for many years as a writer, show producer, and creative director for Walt Disney Imagineering. Among the high-profile projects that he has helped create for WDI are Virtual Jungle Cruise, which opened at the DisneyQuest arcade in Orlando, Florida, in 1998; Soarin’–Living Landscapes, a large-scale interactive gaming system that opened at Epcot Center in 2007; and The Magic Playfloor, an interactive floor installed on Disney Cruise Line’s new Dream and Fantasy cruise ships, which launched in 2011 and 2012, respectively.

A member of the Writers Guild of America, Dean has sat on the guild’s New Media Caucus steering committee and has been a featured speaker at several guild-sponsored events, including panels for the 2006 Game Developers Conference in San Jose, California, and the Writers Guild Foundation in 2008.

To contact Dean and learn more about The Writer Gene online community for writers please visit www.thewritergene.com.