“This novel is one you will live like a 3D movie. […] I loved it, it’s like the most vivid videogame!”

This is from a real review of a real novel.
And yes, together with the author’s admission he had “researched” the book by playing Prince of Persia and Assassin’s Creed, it sort of caused me a certain depression.

The depression comes from the realization that the market (and many readers with it) moved on, and I was left behind.

I love doing research for my stories, and I have already bored you enough with this.
I need to get my facts straight – or as straight as possible before I bend them.
And I do not want to write stories that feel like 3D movies (wobbly, out of focus and causing headaches?). I want my stories so that they are vivid, but not like videogames.
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