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- From: daveg@ee.ubc.ca (Dave Gagne)
- Subject: Re: Work in Progress
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.180610.1398@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <16272@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 18:06:10 GMT
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- In article <16272@mindlink.bc.ca> Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian) writes:
- >I've just finished chapter 1 of Redmagic; 3400 words, about right for an
- >introductory chapter. Though it's taken me the scandalously long time of 12
- >days to get that much done, I'll need to take a couple of days away from it
- >to let it cool. Then I'll see what little touches it still needs.
-
- Question: Do you "polish" as you go, or will you write until the book
- is done & then go through the whole thing to "polish" at that point?
- (Or do you do both :-) ). In other words, how "finished" is the prose
- at this early stage?
-
- >I still have only a very general outline: [ ... ]
-
- Are you just making it up as you go, or do you have a direction/ending
- in mind?
-
- Dave
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