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   Message 143,145 of 144,800   
   William Vetter to J.Pascal   
   Re: storytelling: talent or skill?   
   16 Jun 14 14:19:28   
   
   From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   On Monday, June 16, 2014 4:56:18 PM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:   
   > On Monday, June 16, 2014 1:20:45 AM UTC-6, David Friedman wrote:   
   >    
   > > On 6/13/14, 9:11 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
   >    
   > >    
   >    
   > > > Gosh, like, you never heard of it?  I thought all the cool kids knew it.   
   >    
   > > I don't think Tina is one of the cool kids.   
   >    
   >    
   > Possibly not.    
   >    
   > Or maybe she's one of the even cooler kids.     
   >    
   > Usually when anyone mentions something like Turkey Lexicon here, or anything   
   like it, the purpose is to explain all the many ways in which it does more   
   harm than good.   
   >    
   What I meant originally was that it doesn't matter what you define "levels"   
   as.  There are people there who have lower levels of skill, lower levels of   
   knowledge, lower levels of experience. We hope they can grow and learn and   
   change.  We hope they can    
   see other people making a whole catalog of mistakes and be able to recognize   
   what they are.  Some of them can't, and they write the video game narratives   
   forever, but we hope they improve and get to the level where they're getting   
   rejected because the    
   manuscript is Not For Us, and not because it's unreadable, or it's a Hitler is   
   a Gandhi to the Jews in an Alternate Universe story.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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