Up to my ears in overhauling the Webmansion, yet those pesky story ideas keep intruding on relearning the composing program, capturing icons, getting postings straight, reformatting countless pages, etc., etc. I caught myself putting one such idea aside, assuring myself that I would remember it later when I had completed the mind-numbing website repair Read More
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Ideas and Other Obligations
July 20, 2011
Tags:
ideas, time allocation
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Jul 26, 2011 12:40 PM EDT
I tend to be picky about how a story wraps up. Sometimes a good climax with a bad wrap-up leaves me flat enough to dump the "offending" author from my reading list (at least, for a while). I have found this personal peccadillo interferes with my own ability to finish many of the stories I start (unless I started them with an ending in mind). I've never found a fix for this internal editor issue, but I'm open to suggestions.
- Chris Clark
Jul 26, 2011 1:41 PM EDT
This should be up in the "Peeves" entry, but I can't write a story if I know how it ends. Just bores me stiff. I set up what is to me an interesting story situation then let the characters figure their way out. Some of the time it flops. Most of the time it works out well enough to keep me at it.
- Barry B. Longyear