I had the same conclusion reading about the alien story part. If I have to write a story about an alien, I'm going to be thinking about what it's motivations an

I had the same conclusion reading about the alien story part. If I have to write a story about an alien, I'm going to be thinking about what it's motivations and experiences are -- distinctly human things -- but if I have to describe an alien for someone else to write about, I'll have no trouble spewing out a stream of self-contradictory, unrelatable junk. So I'm left wondering why anyone would think the second is more "creative" than the first, given that the first was designed to solve problems and the second to create them. I wouldn't think that's the kind of creativity you'd want to measure and optimize for.