Mon Feb 04, 2019 2:27 pm Post
Mon Feb 04, 2019 10:25 pm Post
Tue Feb 05, 2019 1:04 pm Post
Jaysen wrote:I suspect that the Baconator would give you a different chapter making it a different experience entirely. Maybe you need to remind him at sign up time. Am I missing something obvious?
Jaysen wrote:Maybe it's the fact I see my efforts as writing a short story more than writing a novel. That or I'm a simpleton.
Tue Feb 05, 2019 1:28 pm Post
nom wrote:Jaysen wrote:Maybe it's the fact I see my efforts as writing a short story more than writing a novel. That or I'm a simpleton.
Wait... what’s the choice here?
Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:14 pm Post
Tue Feb 05, 2019 6:35 pm Post
nom wrote:Back on topic: I don’t know how I feel about rewriting the early books. Part of me is interested (anything that gets me writing fiction has a strong start) but at the same time it seems... “wrong” somehow. Maybe it feels more like an academic writing exercise than creating something new?
I don’t know.
Then again, Pigfender has proved he’s good at this, so maybe I should just trust him to pull it off.
My definitive answer: Maybe
Tue Feb 05, 2019 8:44 pm Post
the sense of not creating something new is... about the whole.
Tue Feb 12, 2019 7:28 am Post
Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:40 pm Post
pigfender wrote:One more question, if I may, to those who have reservations: Is your unease about whether you’d personally enjoy taking part as much, knowing it was a tale already told, or is part of the unease that re-running would diminish the earlier work?
Tue Feb 12, 2019 1:43 pm Post
gr wrote:
I myself am having that nom-sort of feeling.* And the sense of not creating something new (if that's what that feeling is) is not (or not just) about one's own chapter, but about the whole.
gr
* Is there something I can take for this?
Sun Feb 17, 2019 7:13 pm Post
pigfender wrote:Is your unease about whether you’d personally enjoy taking part as much, knowing it was a tale already told, or is part of the unease that re-running would diminish the earlier work?
Wed Feb 20, 2019 7:11 pm Post
nom wrote:Back on topic: I don’t know how I feel about rewriting the early books. Part of me is interested (anything that gets me writing fiction has a strong start) but at the same time it seems... “wrong” somehow. Maybe it feels more like an academic writing exercise than creating something new?
I don’t know.
Then again, Pigfender has proved he’s good at this, so maybe I should just trust him to pull it off.
My definitive answer: Maybe
Wed Feb 20, 2019 7:15 pm Post
nom wrote:pigfender wrote:One more question, if I may, to those who have reservations: Is your unease about whether you’d personally enjoy taking part as much, knowing it was a tale already told, or is part of the unease that re-running would diminish the earlier work?
Yes.
But primarily the latter.
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