From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 2/15/16 9:09 PM, Joy Beeson wrote:   
   >   
   > 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.   
   >   
   >   
      
   	I can't think of any stories I've abandoned for those sorts of reasons.   
   There's a few I know I will never write now because the world has passed   
   them by (e.g., the trilogy I plotted out that depended, upon other   
   things, on the Soviet Union not breaking apart), and some I shelved   
   because I knew I couldn't write them YET even though I knew what   
   HAPPENED in them, but none where I just stopped and said "I have no idea   
   what happens after this".   
      
      
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