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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.   
      
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   Mike D   
      
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