Timeline for Not wanting to "spoil" a story due to lack of skill
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| Aug 18, 2020 at 10:29 | answer | added | Anya | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 25, 2020 at 19:09 | answer | added | Robbie Goodwin | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jul 21, 2020 at 21:13 | vote | accept | Totofofo | ||
| Jul 21, 2020 at 21:11 | vote | accept | Totofofo | ||
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| Jul 16, 2020 at 23:35 | answer | added | Acccumulation | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 7:38 | comment | added | Simone | One of the most important Italian novels, "The Betrothed", has undergone at least two major rewrites, the first of which had a language change (from Lombard to Tuscan dialect), major outline changes, large sequences added or removed, some characters being expanded or shadowed, and even the main protagonist being renamed from "Fermo" to "Renzo". As you can see, editing and rewriting may well be part of any project :) | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 21:54 | comment | added | Philippe-André Lorin | Bernard Werber rewrites his books entirely from scratch several dozen times before publishing. (He said so in a podcast I can’t trace back.) | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 17:47 | comment | added | J... | This sound like Wyld Stallyns never writing an awesome song because they don't know how to play, and they can't learn to play without Eddie van Halen, but they can't make friends with Eddie van Halen because they're not famous, and they can't get famous without an awesome song... just write your story and don't worry about it. | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 16:01 | comment | added | TimothyAWiseman | I have never heard anyone advise against rewriting or revising a story. "The Cold Equations" for instance famously received several rounds of major revisions before publication. The closest I have ever heard is that you don't want to write the same type of story so often it becomes formulaic if you want to improve as a writer, but even there some professional writers do just that and make a living. | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 8:13 | answer | added | Spencer Barnes | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1283189535917121536 | ||
| Jul 14, 2020 at 22:33 | answer | added | Duncan Drake | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 15:16 | answer | added | Abigail Davids | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 15:06 | answer | added | Chris Sunami | timeline score: 20 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 12:20 | comment | added | Chronocidal | "people seem to advise against rewriting and revising the same story over and over again." [citation needed] - the closest to this advice that I have ever heard from a professional author was that sometimes you need to put the book down, work on something different for a while, and then come back to it later with a fresh outlook or approach, instead of repeating the same actions again-and-again without making much progress. The second-closest is about knowing when your story is done and you're just procrastinating about moving on. | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 8:59 | answer | added | ewokx | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 14, 2020 at 7:52 | answer | added | Ingolifs | timeline score: 22 | |
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 22:46 | answer | added | Mary | timeline score: 43 | |
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| Jul 13, 2020 at 22:04 | history | asked | Totofofo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |