From: Peter L. Ward, falcon@best.com
On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Mr. the Rutsch wrote:
3) It's best to have a short attention span: that prevents your stories
from
growing too long, thus you can turn out more. And it defenitely saves you
from dangerous distractions like novel-writing.
Hear, hear. This one should be framed in gold... I didn't listen...
Result? One novel finished, two half-done and another one on the drawing
board... and *then* we have the short-stories....
This one came too late for me...I'm working on such a project right now and
it's too late to stop! ^_^
Depends on your writing style, too. I tend to be a "good bits" writer; I
imagine neat scenes when I'm trying to get to sleep, then have to go back
and write all the stuff in between to connect them. You can quickly end
up with something much bigger than you'd planned, because the stuff
connecting the good bits takes a lot longer than you'd thought...
Travis Butler
(The Professor, formerly of Myth and Magick!, Lawrence, KS;
tbutler@tfs.net, now from the Wandering Powerbook;
<http://www.tfs.net/personal/tbutler/>;
Mac page <http://www.tfs.net/business/tbutler/>)
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