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To: GeronL

Ideas are easy, I have notebooks full. Getting 200K words of readable prose on paper is a lot harder, let me tell you.


30 posted on 05/25/2009 9:07:56 PM PDT by Travis McGee (--www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

I always seem to write 5 or 6 pages and then lose interest, thinking nobody is ever going to read them. I got several in the works right now, but who knows?

I posted some of the first or first several pages over at LibertyFic but thats basically a 2-person board right now.


32 posted on 05/25/2009 9:12:02 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com for the love of something)
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To: Travis McGee
I know what you mean. I have a filing cabinet that is half-full of story outlines, character sketches, maps, timelines, etc...

But despite my best intentions, they rarely get past this stage. I am currently in the middle of a story that follows a group of young preppers (not preppies) as they have to escape the Baltimore-DC area following a total collapse of society. One of the young adults has an uncle who lives on a farm in Wyoming, which is their ultimate goal, but first they have to travel, on foot, across the entire United States.

Right now, I have about 15K words typed out and have a basic storyline written out for the rest of the story, so hopefully I will be finished in another month or two.

35 posted on 05/26/2009 9:16:43 AM PDT by Stonewall Jackson (Put your trust in God; but mind to keep your powder dry. - Oliver Cromwell)
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