10 Amazing Things You Didn't Know About Haruki Murakami
10. He Once Compared Writing To Programming Video Games
The process of writing can be a lengthy and arduous one. It often requires extensive redrafting and heavy editing, switching around not only lines and words for greater clarify, but entire narrative strands, plot points and characters. So it makes sense that Murakami would compare all of this fine-tuning to programming, telling the Paris Review:
"Sometimes while Im writing I feel Im the designer of a video game, and at the same time, a player. I made up the program, and now I'm in the middle of it; the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. Its a kind of detachment. A feeling of a split."
Fittingly, there's even a video game called Memoranda currently being programmed by video game company Bit Byterz, based on Murakami's stories.
