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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 :-)   
      
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