From: kay@invalid.net   
      
   In article , dirk.vdboom@sf-boom.de   
   says...   
   >   
   > 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 :-)   
      
   Just realized, I did abandon a mystery story I planned for a NaNoWriMo   
   in the research/outline stage when I realized all the nifty stuff I'd   
   found out had completely short circuited the motive for the murder by   
   the original murderer, and frankly anybody ELSE in the area.  Tried to   
   change it to an accident covered up in panic but... no go.  I'll give it   
   another try some day - I still like the idea of a murder in a haunted   
   museum, complete with ghost of the murder victim (who doesn't know   
   whodoneit either) trying to figure out what the heck, and I like the   
   characters.   
      
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