Re: Doing The Narrative Drains ... any reason for it not to be an interesting, complex, multilayered story. ...ought to write differently when you're obviously not enjoying yourself? ... or the one my characters demanded.... a different application than your writing of first draft, ... (rec.arts.sf.composition)
RE: SQL Slammer doing the rounds again? ... "I used to hate writing assignments,... this - Is there a valid business reason to expose UDP ... > Security Business Unit... > at the largest, most highly-anticipated industry... (Incidents)
Re: Effects of Magic ...society without working out how that society works; ... Maybe you're just stumbling across bad writing.... No, that'd be fine, if there's a reason that it matters to those ... scene where all characters have to turn out their pockets. ... (rec.arts.sf.composition)
Re: Could someone please read this? ... because I've spent twenty-five years in and out of critique groups with professional writers and taught the odd class for would-be writers and spend an *enormous* amount of time talking to other writers about how they work, so I've had a lot of opportunity to find out how other people work and what does and doesn't work for them. ... you could say they are to blame for the explosion of new writers which has assured that getting and keeping a writing career going is more difficult than ever. ... I don't like *pointless* rewriting.... IME, the number of writers for whom it is useful is quite small, therefore I tend not to recommend it as a place for people to start (unless I have some reason to think that in *this specific case* it will be useful). ... (rec.arts.sf.composition)
Re: Critique rules ... (50 words about the Winter tribe might be a fine ... that turns out while writing.... That isn't a character flaw, that's not knowing something, just ... has a real reason to have lost her place. ... (rec.arts.sf.composition)
