Results of Ruminations

I love a well-told tale. One of the reason that I still unabashedly recommend Patrick Rothfuss  and his two novels to people is because Rothfuss knows how to tell a good story. Not only that, but he loves  to tell stories. Almost every question he answers in interviews comes in the form of a story. He's supped full of the bardic tradition and it exudes from him like an odoriferous wave of narrative--I would imagine. I haven't met him in person, so I can't say for certain. As an addendum, I would like to point out that the particulars of an odoriferous wave of narrative  and what that would smell like are beyond my experience, though I imagine it would entail nutmeg somehow. That just seems how it ought to be. Anyway, this essay isn't about Rothfuss. It's about how he got so good at stories: It was by watching Joss Whedon. You can learn all about Rothfuss' conversion story , but what he doesn't really go into detail with that post is why  Whedon is so gorra...