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From the article: an 8 year old kid, Stroud, wrote a book about Minecraft. okay. Question is now: is it because of Minecraft that this kid "became a writer",
by yann63 10y ago
From the article: an 8 year old kid, Stroud, wrote a book about Minecraft.
okay.
Question is now: is it because of Minecraft that this kid "became a writer", or was it just the starting element? If the kid had been fond of frogs, rocks or knitting, would he gave wrote a book just as well?
If you take any random kid playing Minecraft, could you turn it into a writer like described in the article?
I think that the kid was a born writer, or is in the correct environment, but crediting Minecraft for this is not correct.
- vidarh 10y agoMaybe crediting Minecraft with it is "not correct", but I see with my own son too that a lot his creativity centers around open-ended games - including Minecraft - that helps provide structure when he wants to sit down and write. It provides ample inspiration, and a setting that he can describe rather than have to invent from scratch, and that is very helpful "scaffolding" to be able to focus on the story in the beginning. As he gets "caught up" in describing something, what he describes starts to morph away from the game world he started with. Look at the vast amount of heavily scripted Youtube videos that use open-ended sandbox games as "set" and you see much of the same, where the games clearly affect the creative process by letting people act and react and describe rather than having to jump straight into inventing from scratch.