I've four published novels, and then the one I just sold, and I like everything I've ever written except the end of The Prize in the Game which has that no corrections nature. (It is too late to throw away the last three chapters and replace them with entirely new ones, when you're doing the paperback galleys, which is the last time I actually read it, and finally figured out what I should have done with that end.)
On rec.arts.sf.composition once, this sort of thing came up, and people seemed to split into two camps, those who re-read and like it and think "I'll never do anything this good again!" and those who re-read and think "All these flaws! And too late, too late!"
But the way I approach things -- I need the mode. If I have the mode, if I have a really clear grip on the mode, then I can do it.
The other thing is, when I finish a project, I tend to flail around starting things for a while, before I find something I really want to carry through on. It's hard to tell if the three projects I'm presently (intermittently) working on are in fact just flailing of this nature. I'd think I'm too far in on Lifelode for it to be that, but right now I'm much more inclined to start something new than to go back to any of these cold dishes of lovely-rice-pudding for-dinner-again.
It's a good thing I write fast, that's all I can say.
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Date: 2004-07-12 01:21 pm (UTC)On rec.arts.sf.composition once, this sort of thing came up, and people seemed to split into two camps, those who re-read and like it and think "I'll never do anything this good again!" and those who re-read and think "All these flaws! And too late, too late!"
But the way I approach things -- I need the mode. If I have the mode, if I have a really clear grip on the mode, then I can do it.
The other thing is, when I finish a project, I tend to flail around starting things for a while, before I find something I really want to carry through on. It's hard to tell if the three projects I'm presently (intermittently) working on are in fact just flailing of this nature. I'd think I'm too far in on Lifelode for it to be that, but right now I'm much more inclined to start something new than to go back to any of these cold dishes of lovely-rice-pudding for-dinner-again.
It's a good thing I write fast, that's all I can say.