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[Lady Desari]

WOOT...:: Grabs something to drink and eat and then gets comfy :: Bring it on

[Kolava]

It's not going to be on this thread...

It has it's own thread. You can't miss it. 26 replies, all by me.

[Kolava]

Since it's too awkward posting on the story thread yet not important enough for a new thread, I'll reserve this old poll thread for any comments people might want to make (I'm assuming the half dozen views on that thread that I did not make myself came from readers)

[j2644433]

Well, firstly sorry I havent posted here for a while. Secondly yes Robbie I'd read it from begining to end. Probably print it out even so I could read it at night before I go to bed. Cause I know it's probably going to take me a while to read ALL of it. But I love long storys with MORE then enough detail.

[sukinekura]

From what I have read so far, all I can say is unbelievable. It is so well written, and written in a way that RARELY ever catches my full attention and holds it. Way to go Rob.

[Kolava]

Assuming you meant "written in a rare way that catches my attention", thank you.

[Kolava]

Kolava said:

Allow me to use an analogy:

A group of builders are making a tower. After lots of hard work and dedication, they have made seventy floors. Along comes a guy with a blueprints who says "woah this is too big"

Much calamity ensues.

To make things worse, when the builders go back to build more, they now realise that all they have left to build with is ultra-light alluminum.

Now...should the builders add ten more floors of alluminum despite growing doubts, or should they give up and make a nice twenty story tower entirely out of alluminum nearby?

EDIT: Also, the tower doesn't go straight up, so there are more stairs then anyone would want to climb.

lol, my analogies sound good when I write them, but never make much sense in hindsight.

[Nym Zeal]

*loves the analogy*


I've a reason for posting this. Really I do. Styles change. It is part if the craft of writing. You experiment, read different authors and if you have a mind towards the way the books are written, the way the plot works, character develoment, just the general line of the story... you learn. You change, sometimes by a little and sometimes by a ridiculous amount. I was ill at ease with my poetry for about a year, maybe more, whining that something wasn't quite right. You change because you learn but you also sometimes change because you are still finding your voice.

My suggestion... finish the 20 stories in your new voice. Then start from the beginning, reading and rewriting the entire thing. Revising. You might change your style again before you are done, maybe a balance between the two? When that is finished, do it again and again until you can read through it all and be completely happy. Then hide it under you bed and wait a month before looking at it again with a slightly more critical eye.

See why I say I haven't the attention span to write novels? I'm lucky lately if I can hand write a complete first draft for a poem, much less a page of a story. Regardless, thats my revision style. If I wrote frequently enough I'd have to buy stock in college ruled paper and ace bandages. I think your is similiar from what we've talked about but I've never really outright asked...

[Kolava]

Thank you Nym for the truly useful advice, something I don't get very often. It was decisive yet tactful, and oddly appropriate since I actually started such a project (alluminum towers, yay) recently. At this point, the novelty and hype are exhausted and I expect readership at an all-time low, but I never cared too much about either of those things and am mostly writing for myself (especially since the need to "tell the story" is also gone); besides, like you were saying: writing is a constant and everchanging process. I used to become frustrated when the story would mutate as it was being written; I wanted it to simply squeeze out like toothpaste from a tube. Now I realize that a large part of the writing process is done during the actual articulation step, nothing worth writing can be "finished" ahead of time.

I'm going to leave the nutshell summary thread up because, although it will become obsolete, it is still the most succinct form I have ever crammed the story into--1 post--no small feat, and is useful for those who, as the introduction post states, are curious, but not curious enough to read a lot.