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|    Michael R N Dolbear to William Vetter    |
|    Re: storytelling: talent or skill?    |
|    21 Jun 14 21:48:31    |
      From: me@privacy.net              "William Vetter" wrote              >And I was involved in critters.org for a while then and I'd see the       >different levels there, and it became clear to me that somebody who was       >older than around 28 would need to spend something like four years doing it       >full time to have the control to reliably produce manuscripts that were       >publishable full time. And the teenagers that write these stories where       >all the characters interact like people in a freshman dorm are going to       >take a lot longer.              > Does anybody know anyone who sat down at a keyboard and never went through       > that process, who had talent from God like Mozart is believed to have?                     Published novels have been written by 14 year olds.              --       Mike D              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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