And you're right about the straightforward definition of good results.
I suppose you could say that fiction has a straightforward definition of good results--Draw in readers from the very beginning, keep them fascinated through the whole story, and leave them satisfied with the end.
But it's also not straightforward, since there's so many, many ways to succeed and fail in those goals, and one of the failures is to tell the same story the same way over and over with the names changed.
In office work, the same task done the same way over and over is often ideal!
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Date: 2011-04-28 10:54 pm (UTC)And you're right about the straightforward definition of good results.
I suppose you could say that fiction has a straightforward definition of good results--Draw in readers from the very beginning, keep them fascinated through the whole story, and leave them satisfied with the end.
But it's also not straightforward, since there's so many, many ways to succeed and fail in those goals, and one of the failures is to tell the same story the same way over and over with the names changed.
In office work, the same task done the same way over and over is often ideal!