From: kay@invalid.net   
      
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   jbeeson@invalid.net.invalid says...   
   >   
   > 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?? . . . )"   
   >   
      
   Had one end on me suddenly once - I was serializing a sort of travelogue   
   written as I went along, with the idea of introducing the mileau to the   
   rest of a fiction APA I was involved in. Alas, writing as I went along   
   meant finding stuff out I should probably have planned for but hadn't   
   thought of until they (competely logically) happened.  So the character   
   I had planned to provide the dramatic conclusion got the bit between his   
   teeth and went off early, ending the story three worlds before I   
   intended it to.  So I had to do boring "this is what here" articles for   
   them.  Oh well...   
      
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