From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 06/04/2014 03:02 AM, A. Tina Hall wrote:   
   > 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.)   
      
   It isn't clear to me what other useful purposes it might have.   
      
   >> 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.   
      
   Right there you've given an example of how the granting of a wish can   
   become something of a curse, exactly what I asked about.   
      
   > Do you -really- just want to write, regardless of whether anyone but you   
   > ever reads it?   
      
   I can already write, I just have no imagination, no stories to write;   
   while articles or even books about philosophy or technical issues may be   
   useful to a few, there's nothing like a good story to convey the   
   information in a more palatable and enjoyable form that many people can   
   relate to.   
      
   > 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,...   
      
   Your comment seems self-contradictory, if you're writing only for   
   yourself then only the errors that are obvious to you are worth   
   correcting... presuming that writing for yourself has any value other   
   than as a memory aid or a means of focusing your thought.   
      
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