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|    Dirk van den Boom to All    |
|    Re: Abandoning a story    |
|    10 Apr 16 10:42:28    |
      From: dirk.vdboom@sf-boom.de              Am 16.02.2016 um 03:09 schrieb Joy Beeson:       >       > 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”? . . . )"              The latter. The solution has been most of the time that I discarded the       next step in the plot and wrote something that both upset the       protagonists as well as myself. Helps a lot :-)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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