----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, December 15, 2002 1:23 PM Subject: Re: brin: [LINK] What Science Fiction Author Are You?
> Amanda said: > > > I decided Academia was Not For Me > > Welcome to the club! (Although I suspect that I'm a newer member than > you are.) Oh, and welcome to Brin-L too! The people here aren't as crazy > as they look (except for Rob, who is much crazier). > I suppose thats true, seeing as how I am the creator of the geneticly engineered pythons that swallow volunteers in order to remake them as superhumans. (No really, just ask Rich!) > > Moonrise is still on my "to fiddle with further" list > > Do you find that you write most of a story in a sudden rush of > enthusiasm and then find it hard to go back to it and finish it off? > I'm really suffering that with my latest story - I know exactly what > needs to go into the missing section and what changes need to be made > to what's already written, but I just can't seem to find the time and > the right mood to push through to the end. I'm starting to see a whole > future of unfinished stories and fragments of novels ahead of me. Stephen Kings "On Writing" addresses this. But I'm not sure that his suggestions apply across the board. Worth a read by any aspiring writer in any case. > > (In the shameless plug department, what I've written so far is at > http://www.theculture.org/rich/story.txt and spoiler junkies can see > most of the ending at /end.txt The parts that make it make sense are as > yet unwritten however.) > As I've said before, I like it alot. I think it has a lot of potential. And welcome Amanda! xponent We Got Our Own Amanda Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
