From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:53:27 -0400, Michelle Bottorff   
    wrote   
   in in   
   rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   It’s been many, many years since I last made a serious   
   effort to write fiction, but I can remember abandoning a   
   few attempts partly because I couldn’t figure out where   
   they should go next.  Of course this was usually compounded   
   by dissatisfaction with what I’d already written, and in   
   one case by the conviction that I was losing the voice of   
   the story.   
      
   [...]   
      
   > (But I'm sure none of them were abandoned because   
   > "everything was already decided and too predictable" --   
   > that one just makes me go "hunh?")   
      
   I actually do understand that one: if one writes to find   
   out what happens, then once you find out, the story has   
   already been ‘written’, and finishing the actual writing   
   could be pretty boring.  It’s a bit like suddenly realizing   
   how to solve a programming problem cleverly but finding the   
   details of coding a bore.   
      
   Brian   
   --   
   It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their   
   holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered   
   rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,   
   haggisss.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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