ATTN JMS: Writing Question

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Subject: ATTN JMS: Writing Question
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s  1: Mar  9, 1997: ranger27 <jdeboard at netwalk.com>
*  2: Mar 10, 1997: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)

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From: ranger27 <jdeboard at netwalk.com>
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(moderaters: my posts are ALWAYS rejected so I'm trying this way)

JMS: Thank you for a milestone in SF.
Do you always write the ending first?
Thank you,
 
Janeen S. DeBoard
"Janeen O'Kerry"
LADY OF FIRE, August '96 from Leisure Books



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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
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"Do you always write the ending first?"

No, because the exact *shape* of the ending never come clear to me until
after I've written all the material preceding.  I *know* where it's going,
I have a fairly clear vision whenever I write a script of where I want it
to end, but I don't actually write it first, no.  Mark Twain said, "You
should never write a story until you have finished it to your
satisfaction."  So yeah, you do have to know it.


 jms




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