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Subject: Re: Attn JMS: Another Question on Writing
Date: 02 Sep 2001 23:14:18 GMT
From: jmsatb5@aol.com (Jms at B5)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated

>During the early drafts of your fiction writing, have you ever
>discovered that what you wrote in one section of your work contradicted
>something you wrote in another section of that same work?  How about
>"duplicate effort" where you essentially wrote the same thing twice only
>in different parts of your work? 

It happens on occasion, but almost always in situations where I'm taking a long
time to write something, say a year or more, and I forget what I have and
haven't put in.  The longer the time between starting and finishing, the more
apt this is to happen.

 jms

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