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Arkholt@arkholt.com |
I guess this is true, but most people don't have things happen to them that are interesting enough to write a story about. If you go through a conflict that is exciting and interesting and overcome it, odds are you will learn *something,* at the very least how to overcome that kind of conflict.
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Arkholt
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The only people who would learn absolutely nothing from that are either horrible people, who do have stories written about them but they tend to be about the fact that they're horrible, or people who are already perfect, in which case it's just a power fantasy.
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Virginia S. O'Possum
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I kind of like the tiny epiphanies model, where some small thing changes the inner landscape.
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Tade Thompson
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That's the point of reading biographies. To see what happens to real people when they go through stuff. I read a lot of biographies. A pattern emerges.
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Iain Bancarz
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Counterpoint: Calvin learned very little from the attack of the deranged mutant killer monster snow goons, but it was still awesome. 😀
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