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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 4953630" data-attributes="member: 177">I'm going to have to disagree with both of these.Taking the second first - most video games don't change their "storyline" significantly with player action.  How many times you have to hit the lieutenant does not generally alter where, when, and how you deal with the End Boss.  The world is largely independent of player action.  How you deal with things may (or may not) change, but what you have to deal with doesn't.  I have a hard time considering videogame resource management details "storyline".  Meanwhile, every English and creative writing teacher I've ever had would argue strenuously with you that reading is a passive activity.  Quite the opposite - to create a good piece, an author has to be very aware that the reader is thinking while reading, not passively accepting input without question.  Passive readers wouldn't notice plot holes, inconsistencies, or implausible emotional reactions on the part of characters.  Passive readers don't gripe about deus ex machina, don't analyze the author's choice of symbolism, and so on.A writer needs to understand that a reader "reads into" the text.  That is an active process, not a passive one.</blockquote>