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Darrin Lee Hutton's avatar

i love the agile writer who can make characters evolve through real world events. nothing gets my respect faster than writers who figure out how to correlate real world and their world without making their audience flinch or cringe.

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Stephen Beals's avatar

It's been my luck to connect with readers. This was an accident, writing about my life and finding a response. It took forever for that accident to happen, but I'm glad it did.

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Darrin Lee Hutton's avatar

it worked out well for all of us 😁👍

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Stephen Beals's avatar

I almost included a mask strip where a customer wore it as a sort of charm bracelet. Telling customers that a mask isn't a charm bracelet was funny at the time, like wearing an onion on your belt. That leads me to The Simpsons, which I almost mentioned, because it's the best modern example of a series going waaaay longer than ever imagined. When they did those '70's shows with Marge and Homer, they never thought that new shows would still be made this far into the future. This could only happen in cartoons, unless a live action show replaced aging characters with younger ones. Peanuts and The Simpsons both made plenty of dated references and got away with it.

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