From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Saturday, September 6, 2014 11:42:33 PM UTC+1, bre...@sff.net wrote:   
   > On 9/6/2014 7:10 PM, Jymesion wrote:   
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   > > 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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   >Brenda wrote   
   > Much of the craft of writing is actually rewriting -- crunching the    
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   > entire work and honing it, squeezing it, making it into what it ought to    
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   > be. You can't do that until you have the entire work.   
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   Of course that's true but I feel that you have to want to finish a novel.   
   There is nothing intrinsically great about finishing one and just coming to   
   the end of something may or may not be satisfying. Personally, I can't imagine   
   setting up a situation    
   that puts pressure on someone to finish something ( unless I am their   
   dissertation supervisor which is kind of a different thing)  Novelists are a   
   self selecting bunch. It is OK not to be a novelist. It is OK to be someone   
   who thinks they might be a    
   novelist but then turns out not to be. I suppose I don't see automatically   
   value in finishing something because you have been manipulated into it.   
   Finishing a bad novel is probably worse than not finishing a bad novel because   
   you've wasted more time on    
   it. If you enjoy writing it that's fine but if you don't there really is no   
   point.   
      
   Nicky   
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