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- From: suzanne@mailhub.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com (Suzanne Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Proposal for Crawford Killian
- Message-ID: <suzanne.69@mailhub.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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- Organization: Lockheed Santa Cruz, CA.
- References: <mtan-190892115547@maureen.cen.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 18:46:05 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- In article <mtan-190892115547@maureen.cen.uiuc.edu> mtan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Maureen Tan) writes:
-
- >From: mtan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Maureen Tan)
- >To: Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian)
- >Subject: Re: Work in progress
- >References: <14387@mindlink.bc.ca>
- >Organization: UIUC
-
- >In article <14387@mindlink.bc.ca>, Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford
- >Kilian) wrote:
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- >> I don't want to trot out the storyline, but I will be happy to deal with any
- >> questions people may have about the early stages of novel development.
-
-
-
- >A PROPOSAL and an open letter to Crawford K.:
-
- >I don't know if you are willing, but if you are *and* the misc.writing
- >people agree...
-
- > It's not often that we netters get in on the very beginning of the novel-
- >writing process. (I suspect we tend more to the scream for help in
- >the middle or the alternating insecurity/hope reports at the end.) And
- >seeing as how the writer in question is experienced, chatty, and
- >disgustingly
- >organized...
-
- >W ould anyone else find it fascinating to watch Crawford in a
- >"fly-on-the-wall" style as he works through the early stages of his
- >novel????
-
- >If you agree to this (and if you're foolish enough to agree to this
- >scheme, you really *can* quit anytime you like, Crawford) but you
- > have to agree to post the bad stuff too. And
- >perhaps the experience of negotiating with Del Rey--issues like
- >deadlines, cover art, y'know all that mysterious stuff.
- >Maybe it could be a series of Dear Netters letters.
-
- >I for one loved the letter technique you described and am already
- >wondering how you are going to move these characters around the
- >board. Your letter writing technique is not one I've ever tried, but
- >after reading your post, I'm definitely going to.
-
- >*I* want to know what you are going to do next. (Call it a vicarious
- >thrill, if you must... .) Wadda ya think???
-
- >Maureen (a.k.a. Jane)
-
-
- 1,too, would be interested in such a posting. Although we write in
- different genres, good organization is good organization. Any method that
- will produce well-thought-out, coherent plotting is of gret interest.
- I encourage you to have a go at it for the rest of us.
- Suzanne (who wishes she had a well-thought-out plot)
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