THIS! Christine

So... how are those thoughts coming along... any on the horizon?

Great blog entry at Belfry btw. I'll comment specifically over there.
 

Interesting post at Belfry. I'm curious which terms threw you for a loop.

I tend to think your big picture here is correct. A writer needs a sense of character and story, but doesn't need a college education, IMO.
 

Hmm, perhaps it'a not the terms so much as interpreting their relevance to one another. In theory I understand the concepts of Internal vs External conflict. The importance of GMC, Character Arc, show don't tell, it's when discussions move beyond the basic and into the purely technical.
Dee, had a pretty good example of the discussions that make my head hurt, only she used fabulous examples to illustrate her points, taking it from the technical to the practical. (that discussion was on IC).
Still, my brain doesn't function that way. I don't analyse the technical points/terms building blocks of a story, any more than I do a sentence.
I don't look at a sentence and break it into its pieces, weighing the merit of each against the other. I simply DO it.

And i have to agree with you about the college thing. I know a lot of highly educated people who aren't intelligent. But some how those degrees/phds are some sort of free pass out of the idiot end of the gene pool.