Did it turn out?

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From: "Jennifer Girling" <jengirling at hotmail.com>
Date: 10 Jun 1997 20:21:36 -0400
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I have a question about the series as a whole.

Knowing who television works and all... did everything turn out the way
you originally planned or did entire plot arcs, etc. change -- was there
anything that you were forced to get rid of that you really wanted to
keep?

Thnaks,
Jen G.


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 12 Jun 1997 04:53:55 -0400
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Storytelling is an organic process; when I start a novel, I have a very
broad sort of outline, just the high points I want to hit.  But once I
start the actual writing, it's all fair game.  In "OtherSyde," I started
the novel thinking it was about the female cop who is one of the major
protagonists.  It ended up being primarily about the two high school kids,
who I thought would be mainly there to get the ball rolling.  (And it's a
darned good thing I didn't know this when I started, or I might not've
started it, since I hadn't really wanted to write a book about kids.)  

As in plans and war, no outline survives contact with the enemy, in this
case, the actual writing itself.

So I'm always leaving room to be surprised; you have to be able to
surprise yourself if you're going to have a chance of surprising anybody
else.  So there have been some twists and turns along the way, some
characters have racked more into the foreground, some to the background,
but the arc is still the arc, the basic story still the basic story...I
got where I needed to get.


 jms




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