From: mbottorff@lshelby.com   
      
   Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote:   
      
   >   
   >       I can't think of any stories I've abandoned for those sorts of reasons.   
      
   I was about to agree with you, but on second thought, I'm not so sure.   
      
   I abandoned my juvenilia upon leaving college because there were too   
   many stories that I'd started, and pretty much none of them were stuck.   
   They'd just been pushed aside by newer shiner ideas.  I knew I couldn't   
   write forty stories all at once, and I wasn't sure how to pick and chose   
   between them.   So I tossed them all.  (Okay, not really "tossed"-- I   
   put them in a box, which I still have.)   
      
   And then I made a rule that I had to finish every book I started from   
   there on.   
      
   Since then I have only one book that I have started and not finished.   
   What I remember happening is that it was pushed aside by the writing   
   class I signed up for, and then the two books that grew out of that   
   class, and then afterward I didn't go back to finish it because I   
   decided it would be better career-wise to stay within the sf/fantasy   
   genre, and it was a regency romance.   
      
   But I deliberately exempted shorts from my "finish what you start" rule,   
   and I have abandoned several.  I can't remember all my reasons, so some   
   of them might possibly have been stuck.  (But I'm sure none of them were   
   abandoned because "everything was already decided and too predictable"   
   -- that one just makes me go "hunh?")   
      
      
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