Oolite Bulletins

pagroove wrote:

Should I continue this story?

Yes... full speed ahead, and damn the torpedoes!!

Yes, keep going! Don't stop in the middle. Get the story down, get it out, and then you start rewriting. That's where the work is.

See here, if you don't believe me!

Disembodied wrote:

Yes, keep going! Don't stop in the middle. Get the story down, get it out, and then you start rewriting. That's where the work is.

See here, if you don't believe me!

I sent this link to a friend who is now a published author (Katherine Webb - The Legacy) - she's in the re-write of her 2nd novel - 20,000 heart-breaking well research words culled and another 10,000 or so to go.

She thanked me for the link, so I thank-you.

You – and she – are welcome! It's the worst thing about writing, I think: watching all that work go down the stank. What you're left with is invariably better, but I resent the waste ...

There's the whole "get rid of your favourite bits" thing, too:

"Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out." — Samuel Johnson

"In writing, you must kill all your darlings." — William Faulkner

I keep my "best bits" - they often form the core gems for a short story or something else not related (in any way) to the work from whence they came.

pagroove wrote:

Sorry to let you down. I wrote the other ports late at night. I probably didn't pay attention to the grammar too much then. Should I continue this story?

Hey hey, I didn't feel let down, sorry if I sounded too harsh I'd be happy if you continued