Re: Original work [was RE: STC certification program:skepticalcurmudgeonlyness, part II]

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Re: Original work [was RE: STC certification program:skepticalcurmudgeonlyness, part II]

Subject: Re: Original work [was RE: STC certification program:skepticalcurmudgeonlyness, part II]
From: "Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>
To: <mbaker -at- analecta -dot- com>
Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 11:08:47 -0700

----- Original Message ----- From: "mbaker" <mbaker -at- analecta -dot- com>
> Well, for Gaiman, this is almost certainly true, but it is by no means

true that there is no industrial production of fiction. From Harlequins to Disney book/tv tie ins, industrial, standardized fiction production is a major part of the book market, and the people who produce them can be just as interchangeable as you and your hypothetical team members.

Yes, exactly. While there are certain "artist" or "artisan" members of
the Disney team (and, ok, I'll grit my teeth and say the Harlequin team as well), once the creative aspects are handed off to production, the
team's output is every bit as much an "engineered" product as the DVD
player or theater projector used to show it.

What distinguishes "artisan" from "engineered" is standardization,
repeatability and scalability in methods and tools.

Gene Kim-Eng
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