millman opened this issue on Dec 10, 2003 ยท 11 posts
Crescent posted Fri, 12 December 2003 at 9:04 PM
You may not like the entire thing, but I'm sure you'll find parts you like if you try to read it from an impartial point of view. (Yes, it's not easy!) Grab a middle section, treat that as a completely separate piece, and see what happens if you use that as your begining, or as your ending, or as the entire story. You may find that there's a section that shines, and your story will unfold from that piece once it has been freed. Experts say you need to write a million words of drek before you can start writing the good stuff. This short story will be drek words 101500 to 104000. I've seen variations on that, but I really do like this version the best!