From: jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid   
      
   This pair of sentences in Patricia Wrede's current blog amused me:   
      
   "(How many stories have you abandoned in the middle because the next   
   plot or character developments were totally opaque? How many because   
   you lost interest because everything was already decided and “too   
   predictable”? . . . )"   
      
   because Vorjack has been sitting on the side of his bed with one shoe   
   on for uncounted years for *both* of those reasons.   
      
   I lost some steam when I realized that he would marry the flighty,   
   irresponsible teen-age witch and become the immortal head teacher of a   
   wisewoman school that probably morphs into a medical school as the   
   decades roll by, but the story stalled where it stalled because he's   
   about to visit a model farm and I don't know nothin' about no   
   eighteenth-century farming methods, not to mention that it is during   
   this trip that he begins to realize that there is more to Alis than   
   she lets on, and I don't know how to convey that.   
      
   Fortunately, I'm really a non-fiction writer.  I never aspired to   
   anything better than "printable" in my fiction, but my non-fiction   
   says things that nobody else can.   
      
      
   --   
   joy beeson at comcast dot net   
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   The above message is a Usenet post.   
   I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)