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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Altamont Ravenard" data-source="post: 1185829" data-attributes="member: 14700">First of all, it's important not to mix up the Story (ie the content of the book) and the actual act of either Writing or Reading. The game is not the story. The game is writing/reading the story.That is the point that I for the moment have the most problem.In the act of Writing, an author may have a plan of the story he is building, but when he is actually writing, and what will be the definitive form of the story is uncertain until the last period is put.In the act of Reading... hm... Yes, it is thought more as a material point of view.In the act of Writing, you necessarily produce a manuscript of some sort. There is the object, wether it's a file on your computer or pages that you've filled. That object can have value (ie a manuscript by R. A. Salvatore) but the actual process of Writing produces nothing.In the act of Reading, it is clearer.In the act of Writing, the rules you abide are those of the language (first and foremost), so that something coherent may emerge (nothing stops you from playing with the language, of course). Also for coherence, you build the inner rules of the story. In the act of Reading, you acceptIn any game, it could be argued that some of the elements inevitably pass on in the real world. Take a sport that you practice for pleasure. You gain physical fitness from it, and physical fitness is useful in the real world.The way I think it should be understood is that (I hope I'm not saying anything stupid) if you Write / Read, in a work of fiction, that someone dies, no one actually died in real life (for example), and even if you write a story about a man named Eric Noah who works in a library and started a great community of fellow RGP'ers and who wins the Vermont Powerball lottery (162 freakin' million $), it won't make it so (sorry, Mr. Noah).Also, I am certainly not an expert on the subject. I'm trying to develop a theory of some sort, and it is probably flawed in many aspects.AR</blockquote>

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