From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Saturday, September 6, 2014 4:09:49 PM UTC-6, Jymesion wrote:   
   > On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 02:08:23 -0700 (PDT), Nicky   
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   > > I mean I guess that is what a will is, but I am puzzled as to why   
   finishing a novel is important?   
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   > I feel that, in and of itself, finishing a particular novel isn't   
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   > particularly important (novels die mid-stream for a reason).   
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   > But for a person who never finishes any novel, I believe that being   
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   > prodded to finish one might be a healthy experience, just like any   
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   > other writing experiment.    
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   > The worst that might happen is they have one finished unpublishable   
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   > novel instead of spending that time writing three or four unfinished,   
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   > and therefore just as unpublishable, novels.   
      
      
   I'm not actually sure what people are talking about but if it's    
   enerational... that novel in your bottom drawer that your grandkids discover   
   after you die... in a way that's about knowing people and I think that this is   
   part of the reason to want to    
   finish what was left unfinished.   
      
   I'm not writing a lot right now because I'm still in college (still!) and   
   might have a part-time job on the way (with what extra time? omg.) and while   
   I'm not giving up... I have set up to print a couple of my short stories into   
   little booklets with    
   colorful covers and a stapled spine and figure I'll send them to family   
   members... to my *parents*... probably with Christmas packages.  Even if no   
   one else really sees them, I think that my family would find them   
   interesting.  Also, my kids did the    
   cover artwork so there's that, too.  Like giving Mom the picture you drew to   
   put on the refrigerator.  And I suppose that ultimately a person has spent a   
   whole lot of time doing this *thing*.  Great-grandma made afghans.  I have   
   paintings that my Mom did.   
     Dad's retirement career is restoring reed and pipe organs.   
      
   Even if the novel Grandfather left in his bottom drawer isn't very good, it's   
   a way to share over generations.   
      
   -Julie   
      
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