[Lorric]

Do you have any professional publication credits? Have you ever taught at a workshop, attended a literary conference, or worked alongside professional writers?

No. But what are you getting at? If I need these for the word to fall into my vocabulary, you'd be better off not using it.

As someone with professional publication credits, someone who teaches writing, attends literary conferences, and has worked alongside professional writers, I know the technical language of writing. Just as mission designers, modelers, and coders have technical jargon which you need to learn how to understand to work in those fields, so do writers.

The reason you didn't know that word is because you haven't learned much about writing. This isn't anything to be ashamed of. But now's your chance to start.

That's surely a mistake. You don't need jargon to understand things. Unless of course someone is throwing jargon at you. But a general rule in life I would think is to avoid jargon as much as possible, it just trips people up and impedes communication.

I keep typing up things from my past, it's about the third time I've done it, but ultimately I don't want to talk about my past so delete them. I just want you to know I had an exceptionally high literacy level at school, enough to amaze the teachers when I was very young.

I enjoyed creative writing more than just about everything else. So I don't want you to think me completely untalented or inexperienced with this kind of thing. There is however no formal training outside of school, and a creative writing class I took, but that didn't provide any kind of qualification. It was free and a chance to mix with others who were interested in such things.

[General Battuta]

Lorric, do you seriously believe you can learn to FRED without words like 'event'? That you can model without understanding what the word 'mesh' or 'smoothing' means?

All skills have words associated with them. 'Cutting' is a really common word that anyone who's been to college knows. I'm not implying you haven't been to college; I'm just surprised you didn't encounter it there.

[Lorric]

Lorric, do you seriously believe you can learn to FRED without words like 'event'? That you can model without understanding what the word 'mesh' or 'smoothing' means?

All skills have words associated with them. 'Cutting' is a really common word that anyone who's been to college knows. I'm not implying you haven't been to college; I'm just surprised you didn't encounter it there.

It's a little different, isn't it? Creative writing, at least to me, seems like something that shouldn't really be bound by rules. Although I'm sure you think differently!

It just seems to me something that should flow naturally.

In secondary education, I stayed on at school, rather than leave at the earliest possibility. Though didn't attend anything further after that. Unfortunately for me, while I might have loved creative writing, English as an entire subject was actually my second favourite subject. And English, and my favourite subject, History, were both in the same "block" of subjects I could choose from. I couldn't attend both, I had to choose, which was genuinely upsetting. These two subjects I enjoyed far more than any other. English had to be sacrificed.

[General Battuta]

Creative writing isn't bound by rules any more than building 3D models is, Lorric. They're creative pursuits.

They still both have languages attached to them.

[Lorric]

Creative writing isn't bound by rules any more than building 3D models is, Lorric. They're creative pursuits.

They still both have languages attached to them.

What do you mean by the second point?