the best thing about being a writer -- part LXXXVII
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it's the complete lack of closure.
it's never finishing anything.
ever.
and thriving on it.
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the best thing about being a writer -- part LXXXVI
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/dcc9699316894bc1
Piet de Arcilla
> the best thing about being a writer -- part LXXXVII
>
> it's the complete lack of closure.
>
> it's never finishing anything.
>
> ever.
>
> and thriving on it.
The better something is, the sooner it's finished. The more you work
at and fiddle with something, the more you risk ruining it, no matter
how good it was at first.
Mark
Oh contraire Pierre, you must never leave your
work finished, otherwise, why would Harry ever
need to return to Hogwarts.
And how could Rocky find vindication?
And what about all the places yet to be explored
that "no man has ever gone before"?
Yes, we "know what you did last summer", but
we still don't know what you're doing this summer.
And that crazy Mel Gibson with his lethal weapon.
You just know he's gonna go ballistic again.
Who can go to the beach safely this summer,
after "Jaws" had babies. No one is really safe.
Bless her heart, Anne of Green Gables, the
situations never end.
And neither does the writing because imagination
is the fuel of future.
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Piet de Arcilla
> And neither does the writing because imagination
> is the fuel of future.
Sequels are a debatable, but separate issue. It's still necessary to
finish an episode without worrying it to death.
Mark
Heh. I knew someone was going to point that out.
I'm a long time artist and have worked with pretty
much every medium, but out of conveinence prefer
now to work in graphite. But the same rule applies
and even more obvious. There comes a definite time
to say "done". Spray it with fixative and walk away.
Anything else and you mud up the unique and
delicate framework that stands on it's on, and has
already become an "entity".
I'm sure all art forms are like this.
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