Perhaps the genius of this book is it has achieved the correct enough formula for comfortable mediocrity? Dunno. Do not care.
Perhaps the genius of this book is it has achieved the correct enough formula for comfortable mediocrity? Dunno. Do not care.
incidentally, I think there's even an analogy to sports management in this, too. Although many here don't like sports, if you look at the most successful football (soccer to you lot) managers you see how a looser structure but more tailored to the context (cf story setting, themes) can help with results. Manager as script. They have a set of principles and strategies, but they work to the strengths of the individual players (characters) to allow them to play the best game they can. A mediocre manager, OTOH, will prescribe and overorganise the players in rigid rule which leads to more consistent, but less creative and watchable play.