Chapter 11
In the long running television series Star Trek, the highly evolved alien race known as Vulcans can do a very cool maneuver called a “Vulcan Mind Meld.” They place their fingers against someone’s head and sonorously chant “your thoughts to mine,” thus downloading the relevant memories, experiences, and thoughts to solve the problem at hand, direct from the other person’s brain to their own.
This chapter is going to propose that an editor/director collaboration at its best, is like a Vulcan Mind Meld, without the laying on of hands, or the sonorous cliché chanting. And that the editor is the Vulcan.
This chapter is near the end of this book because it relies on the ideas that have come before ...
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