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...

Tell me about it!  Why do you think a few of my Aa! Megami-sensei! stories 
ended up being two-parters in the first place (not to mention that episode that 
just came out being longer than any of the others...)?

Travis Butler

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