From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article <9c2723ac-5118-4701-8f72-14e9a3a7aff6@googlegroups.com>,   
   C. E. Gee  wrote:   
   >   
   >I agree completely, but would like to add a point.   
   >   
   >Though I don't believe in the supernatural, it's sort of a cliche or   
   >something that it's  BAD LUCK to tell the details of a work of fiction   
   >before it's published.   
      
   Depends on the writer.   
      
   >I've noted that many "writers" who yak about what they're working on are   
   >often unpublished or self-published.   
      
   Depends on the writer.  Some keep their words close to their   
   jerkin till the third or fourth draft, and then show them only to   
   the agent and/or editor.  Some show selections to their spouse,   
   friends, or critique group.  Or post them on rasf.composition,   
   when that was a going concern.  Or get their spouse, etcetera, to   
   read the whole thing in multiple incarnations.   
      
   It all depends on what works for you.   
      
   ObSorfOfSF: in his mystery _Rocket to the Morgue_, Anthony   
   Boucher tells a story about a writer who is (apparently) a   
   Tuckerization of L. Ron Hubbard back when he was a writer and not   
   a mountebank.  He told the plot of a story to the editor over   
   drinks, and the editor said, "Yeah, but now you've told me about   
   it, you're never going to write it."  The writer went home, wrote   
   the story, sent it to the editor, and the editor bought it.   
      
   So this may or may not be a true story, depending on just how   
   fictional Boucher was being at the moment of writing that   
   paragraph.   
      
   But still, it depends on what works for you.   
      
   I don't show my stuff to anybody because I haven't anyone to show   
   it to; my family are all too busy with other things.   
      
   --   
   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
   Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress.   
   Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.   
      
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