From: julie@pascal.org

On Sunday, June 8, 2014 7:02:03 AM UTC-6, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:
> On 6/6/14 7:10 AM, mumble wrote:
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> > Is storytelling a talent one is born with, or is it a skill that can be
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> > developed?
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> > Aside from autobiography, where do the stories come from?  Are they
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> > imagined up out of thin air?  Are they transformations of stories one
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> > has lived himself?  Other?
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> 	I think it's very clearly both. You're born with more or less inherent
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> talent in assembling concepts in ways that are conducive to
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> storytelling, but if you don't provide that talent with the tools and
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> knowledge needed to USE it, you won't be able to write much of anything.
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I think that in order to be sentient, to have even a *concept* of the
abstract, we've got to be storytellers and liars.  We have to be able to make
shit up.

-Julie

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