Polygon: All Posts by Austin Grossmanhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/42931/favicon.ico2013-04-18T14:00:05-04:00https://www.polygon.com/authors/austin-grossman/rss2013-04-18T14:00:05-04:002013-04-18T14:00:05-04:00Opinion: Video Games Taught Me How to Write
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<p>When I finished college, I applied for jobs in publishing. I wanted to be a literary young man and be part of a recycled idea of a passionate, groundbreaking creative intelligentsia. I don't know that I would have admitted it to myself, but it's true. </p>
<p>But I didn't get that job in publishing. Maybe my heart wasn't in it, maybe I sensed it rang a little hollow. Certainly I wasn't a promising candidate, with an eclectic transcript and an oddball portfolio of writing samples. So I didn't go into publishing or to an MFA or any of the other, regular paths to becoming a fiction writer. I went into video games.</p>
<p>This was at Blue Sky Productions, which was shortly to become Looking Glass Studios, one of the most creative, challenging, intense...</p>
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