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Thanks Jimson and happy holidays to you!
posted by
word.smith
on December 22, 2005 at 8:02 PM
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I know how you mean! Good luck!
posted by
SomeoneElse
on December 22, 2005 at 6:15 PM
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Oh this one will come back Factor.
He's just being his usual irresponsible self. I hate that too coming away from a book unsatisfied. I finished this book just a couple of days ago where the character had up and left his wife for 20 years and then reappeared. As much as he needed to find himself, I couldn't for the life of me understand what had happened and still I don't know why he left in the first place.
posted by
word.smith
on December 22, 2005 at 11:29 AM
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So long as you have your character reappear at some point.
I have hated reading a "really good book" racing to the end because I want to know how on earth this turns out, only to find that the writer had no idea either and just left things unexplained. Grrr, still annoys me to have wasted my time on certain "books." Anyone could write a book if the plot could just hang in limbo after they write themselves into a corner...
posted by
FactorFiction
on December 22, 2005 at 6:15 AM
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John, that often exactly what happens to them.
They move on!
posted by
word.smith
on December 21, 2005 at 8:39 PM
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True Tapsel,
..And then there are those you have to coax to shake something loose. 
posted by
word.smith
on December 21, 2005 at 8:37 PM
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Tiel,
I'm glad they're in cooperation mode. There are days when they take holiday and nothing will make them settle down to work.
posted by
word.smith
on December 21, 2005 at 8:36 PM
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word
Something similar happens on television, word. When a central character on, say, CSI, gets shot and killed, Ell and I have a habit of saying "Oh they must have been offered a better role."
posted by
johnmacnab
on December 21, 2005 at 8:19 PM
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Interesting post, word.smith. It is funny how some characters just lead you along.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 21, 2005 at 6:08 PM
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Word
That seems to be what most successful writers say. "Listen to your characters." Glad yours are talking!
posted by
Tiel
on December 21, 2005 at 12:56 PM
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