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The girls are about ready to start telling their story again.Stay tuned...
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Cool beanz.
Been reading more Tad Williams, just finished book 3 of his Shadowmarch series. The first two books promoted it as a trilogy, so I got to the end of the third book after a madness-inducing plunge (I only stopped reading when I was so hungry I was ready to collapse, or so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open for another page), only to discover that he had extended the series to a 4th book.
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One of two things happened: either he had a great idea when he was nearly done writing, which warranted another volume, or he found a way to make more money....
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Well considering that his first trilogy ended with the 3rd book being something close to 1500 pages in paperback and got divied up into two volumes, it doesn't entirely surprise me, but it did come as a "ah crap" moment when I figured it out. 
I know he's a good enough author that he doesn't need to pad his stories in order to sell another volume, and this series has been packed with background material. This series has multiple villains, all of whom have their own motivations, and none of them have an inclination to share anything, so trying to sort them out has been really interesting. It's been an awesome roller-coaster ride so far.
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My problem is that I have this great book, but can't stop writing even more stuff. If I go back to revisit a part of the book, I wind up expanding it even more.
Good thing its a cheap hobby as it will never see print...
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Yeah, I really wish I could do that myself. I'm pretty good at coming up with the basics, but the nitty-gritty details escape me. Being a gamer-geek my interest has long been in creating new and interesting characters to play. But inventing long stories for them is hard. I also have a tendency to get frustrated if I don't feel like I'm accomplishing anything.
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Someone much wiser than me said that when you drop a story line, its usually a sign that it needs a lot of help. 'Writing yourself into a corner' I think he said. Sometimes time away from it will resolve, but often ditching a large portion that led to the corner helps. My problem is that I can have an entire story in my head, but if I can't get it down within two weeks time, I lose interest. I still have the entire plot for my cowgirls of Arizona story in my head, involving a Dude Ranch, murder, Apache Casinos, shady land dealings, missing nazi gold and a fabled lost mine, and lots of murder and a forbidden love. Quite the handful, but its all still there, locked away in my mind... I did write the beginning of it though, but got stuck when it came to the hero reviewing property records as I don't know how he could have access to them. (pre-internet era- yes, there was such a time, called the dark ages I think...)
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Yeah, I love reading stories that get convoluted and trying to both figure out where it's going, and how the author came up with all the ideas in the first place.
Like you I get bored if I spend too much time on something without feeling like I'm accomplishing anything, in my case it's usually trying to figure out the little pieces of the plot that make it a story instead of a one-line joke.
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A little more patience! Christmas holidays and all....
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