I'm going to try an experiment which will be interesting, perhaps, and possibly profitable. I intend to write *about* the story- to myself, sorry, not publicly, if only because public talking about a story is the surest way of killing it dead. I'll make lists of what did happen and what must happen and what everyone feels about what happens and what themes seem to be at work and what the structure of the story might be like if I wrote it. Possibly this is everyday MO for novel writers but I'm not a novel writer. Short stories need only know where they're starting, or occasionally where they're ending, but never an itinerary of all the stations in between. However, if I have a detailed itinerary and A Guide to Local Customs and possibly a glossary (or indeed the detailed Gamemaster's Guide to Kaiei at the Southern Ocean) somewhere in the mass of detail there may be a story.
We have left undone the things we should have done
I'm going to try an experiment which will be interesting, perhaps, and possibly profitable. I intend to write *about* the story- to myself, sorry, not publicly, if only because public talking about a story is the surest way of killing it dead. I'll make lists of what did happen and what must happen and what everyone feels about what happens and what themes seem to be at work and what the structure of the story might be like if I wrote it. Possibly this is everyday MO for novel writers but I'm not a novel writer. Short stories need only know where they're starting, or occasionally where they're ending, but never an itinerary of all the stations in between. However, if I have a detailed itinerary and A Guide to Local Customs and possibly a glossary (or indeed the detailed Gamemaster's Guide to Kaiei at the Southern Ocean) somewhere in the mass of detail there may be a story.
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Evidently a Pepsi at 4:30 without prophylactic muscle relaxants or antihistamines means wide awake till past 3. Usually I'm content to lie in the…
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Now we can go to sleep, say Dippey-dopey
I must have been channeling zeitgeist, because I was awake at 7 a.m., irrevocably dry-eyed awake a mere six hours after going to bed. To bed, note,…
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The cure for being earwormed by sea shanties is to be earwormed by Renaissance dance music, especially the ones with what I think (vague memories…
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