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From: erkyrath@netcom.com (Andrew Plotkin)
Subject: Re: Random competition thoughts
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George Caswell (timbuktu@adamant.res.wpi.edu) wrote:
> > I'd suggest collaboration between writers who can't hack and hackers who 
> > can't write, but there's a basic problem: *everyone* thinks they can 
> > write. :-)

>    Ah, one of the little truths I hate so much.  Anyone know of a way to tell,
> one way or the other?

Enter a competition. See how well you do.

It's not a guaranteed measure, though.

--Z

(It also doesn't take into account the ability to learn from experience.
To test that, you have to write and release more games even if you get
trashed in the competition.)

-- 

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."
