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4: Why do we keep remaking the same stories, and what does that say about us?
5: What's your typical writing process? Your essays often seem carefully crafted, and I wonder whether that happens through rewriting and editing, or if they spring from your fingers in something close to their final state.
5: What's your typical writing process? Your essays often seem carefully crafted, and I wonder whether that happens through rewriting and editing, or if they spring from your fingers in something close to their final state.
9: Alan Moore's Jerusalem -- discuss.
10: What do you remember most about your (worthy, in my opinion) adventures in game design, and have you ever been tempted to try again? If so, what ideas have been bubbling under?
11: You've spoken in the past, off-handedly, about being uninterested, or in some way psychologically unable, to write fiction, despite your facility with essay-writing. I wonder if you'd care to elaborate on that...?
11: You've spoken in the past, off-handedly, about being uninterested, or in some way psychologically unable, to write fiction, despite your facility with essay-writing. I wonder if you'd care to elaborate on that...?
11 (continues): ....
2: What Question Would Andrew Rilstone like me to ask him on his blog?
3: If I asked Andrew Rilstone the question: “What do you think about the way ChatGBT answered the question ‘If I asked Andrew Rilstone to answer the question “Why Do We Keep Remaking the Same Stories?” what do you think he would say?" what do you think he would say?
3: If I asked Andrew Rilstone the question: “What do you think about the way ChatGBT answered the question ‘If I asked Andrew Rilstone to answer the question “Why Do We Keep Remaking the Same Stories?” what do you think he would say?" what do you think he would say?
Epilogue
