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It's All in the Execution (So Beware) Part 2

Posted 30th September 2011 at 08:20 AM by Teresa Edgerton (Epistles from a Goblin Princess)
Updated 3rd October 2011 at 10:49 AM by Teresa Edgerton



Part II
We all know that most fantasy and science fiction stories owe their origins to the question “What if ____?” Yet we shouldn’t be content to leave it at that, because it’s a very good question to ask at every single stage of the writing process. “What if, instead of what I had originally planned, my character decided to do this?” “What if, instead of following the obvious course, I choose to examine one of the other possible consequences of this particular set of circumstances?”
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It's All In the Execution (So Beware) Part 1

Posted 30th September 2011 at 08:16 AM by Teresa Edgerton (Epistles from a Goblin Princess)
Updated 23rd December 2012 at 06:11 AM by Teresa Edgerton

In spite of the artfully sinister title, this was originally written to encourage new writers. (Of course, old writers need encouraging, too.) I've put it through quite a bit of revision since. I hope that it will be inspiring.

However that might be, this is another one of my long-winded articles that contains more characters than the software allows, and so, perforce, must appear in two parts.

ON ORIGINALITY (WITH SOME ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON THE SUBJECT OF STYLE)...
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