From: b.scott@csuohio.edu

On Sun, 13 Mar 2016 22:53:27 -0400, Michelle Bottorff
 wrote
in in
rec.arts.sf.composition:

> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) 
> wrote:

>> I can't think of any stories I've abandoned for those
>> sorts of reasons.

> I was about to agree with you, but on second thought, I'm
> not so sure.

It’s been many, many years since I last made a serious
effort to write fiction, but I can remember abandoning a
few attempts partly because I couldn’t figure out where
they should go next.  Of course this was usually compounded
by dissatisfaction with what I’d already written, and in
one case by the conviction that I was losing the voice of
the story.

[...]

> (But I'm sure none of them were abandoned because
> "everything was already decided and too predictable" --
> that one just makes me go "hunh?")

I actually do understand that one: if one writes to find
out what happens, then once you find out, the story has
already been ‘written’, and finishing the actual writing
could be pretty boring.  It’s a bit like suddenly realizing
how to solve a programming problem cleverly but finding the
details of coding a bore.

Brian
--
It was the neap tide, when the baga venture out of their
holes to root for sandtatties.  The waves whispered
rhythmically over the packed sand: haggisss, haggisss,
haggisss.

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