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Novelist Naomi Alderman is well placed to comment, as she also creates video games, most notably the top-selling Zombies, Run! "The trend towards long books is a fascinating counterpoint to the suggestion that we're all becoming iPhone-junkies, with minuscule attention spans, twitchily unable to concentrate on anything longer than a tweet," she told BBC Culture.
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At least that is the opinion of Marian Salzman and Ira Matathia, who run the Intelligence Factory, the trend-spotting arm of Young & Rubicam, the advertising agency.
But he added he is perfectly willing to run with the trend.
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But such complexity runs against the trend – for reasons mainly economic, but also influenced by TV and cinema – towards 90-minute plays with three characters.
Ronnie Bond, who created some of Britain's best-loved ones, including Cadbury's Flake's "crumbliest, flakiest, milk chocolate" (still running, against the trend, after 30 years), used to write five jingles a week.
The true stand-out designers of the week were the ones who didn't run with the trends and dared to carve out their own unique take.
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