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luapc
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Here's something to make the holidays a bit happier.

If Writing Were Like an RPG by Jim C. Hines

http://jimhines.livejournal.com/410030.html


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LintonRobinson
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I don't get it.

My impression of RPG's is: you arm the projectile, point it, pull the trigger and it zooms out and goes and destroys something.

Okay, that's a personal goal for my writing, but maybe not everybody's.

Hand grenades were more personal, anyway.


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aspirit
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From commenter margaret_y:
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Writing/submitting is like an RPG? Silly me, all along I thought it was like another game.

Calvinball.


That I understand. Hines might as well have written his blog in Greek for all I know of RPGs. How many people here are gamers? Does it help in writing at all?


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dreadlord
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trust me, big game freak right here. aside from the occasional plot twist, gaming doesnt give any improvements to writing.


if it did, I would be filthy rich right now.


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Patrick James
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Linton Robinson's humor is most interesting. I hope I am never on the wrong end of Linton's literature, however.

[This message has been edited by Patrick James (edited November 26, 2008).]


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TheOnceandFutureMe
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I feel like deciding I'm a writer and the next day writing on par with L. Ron Hubbard is less likely than rolling two 20's in row. I played DnD for a few months. I saw massive critical hits. I've never seen anybody write amazingly without first learning how.

[This message has been edited by TheOnceandFutureMe (edited December 01, 2008).]


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