From: A_Tina_Hall@kruemel.org   
      
   mumble   wrote:   
   > Carl Dershem wrote:   
      
   >> For a current WIP:   
   >>   
   >> You are given one wish (with the usual caveats - no wishing for more   
   >> wishes, no breaking the wall between life and death, no interfering   
   >> with someone else's Free Will).  What do you wish for?   
      
   If there's a price, I might decline depending on what that price is.   
   With no price; health.   
      
   > Since you're asking in relation to a WIP, are you preparing to show   
   > that anything one wishes for can become a bit of a curse, and that   
   > the true skill of life is the ability to navigate between misfortune   
   > and catastrophe without being consumed by circumstance?   
      
   What an odd question, jumping onto 1 possibility of what to do with a   
   wish in a story out of countless others. (Almost sounds as if you were   
   trying to say that that's the only option.)   
      
   > I'd probably wish for the ability to make up stories that I could   
   > then write, I suspect that I wish for that anyway.  Material things   
   > are barely worth thinking about (until the toilet overflows, the car   
   > breaks down in a deserted area with no cell signal, etc).   
      
   I'm reminded of the Supernatural episode where a guy sold his soul in   
   return for talent. He drew a bunch of pictures, couldn't stop drawing   
   pictures, didn't sell a single one.   
      
   Do you -really- just want to write, regardless of whether anyone but you   
   ever reads it?   
      
   I'm just writing for myself, wouldn't even want to just have any random   
   person read my stuff, but even I would like a betareader or two (whom I   
   know from here or elsewhere) to tell me if the writing's any good, any   
   consistency errors I don't see,... (I don't even expect anyone to like   
   the stories, though that'd be nice. Fans/readers/viewers of public stuff   
   have other fans/readers/viewers to talk with. For my own stories there's   
   no one who knows them too to talk about them with.)   
      
   --   
   "Great, you've just gone insane on top of nasty. Just what we need."   
   "Glad to please."   
                       -- Senar and Arentus, Magic Earth IV: Seeing Far   
   Excerpts at:    
      
      
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