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I've been following the blog of an award-winning author, and she freely states that the first drafts she turns into her editor sometimes have things like the following written in it:

[Put fight scene here]

[Ending where X X and X happens]

[Construct metaphor] for Character X to say to Character Y

I suggest scrawling out (assuming it is not already so) the ending in some form of an outline, *just* so that you have a touchpoint for *yourself*. However, if your own notes already cover that much, then just dive into the re-write.

In the end, I think you should do what makes you happy to write and what makes you love your story!

Edited Date: 2010-06-19 03:47 pm (UTC)

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That ending has definitely been scrawled out! It just. I don't know. Clearly this is all my own head. I am kind of a completist. (Totally a word now.) And I want people to see what happens! Not just as bullet points but with, you know, words and sentences and things.

Yeah, I could do this in circles all day. :) Your advice is sound, though.

Out of curiosity, which author?

Edited (added question) Date: 2010-06-19 03:49 pm (UTC)

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Elizabeth Bear, who keeps a writing/author journal and is the winner of the following:

* 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
* 2006 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Hammered/Scardown/Worldwired
* 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Best Short Science Fiction for "Tideline"
* 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for "Tideline"
* 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for "Shoggoths in Bloom"
* 2009 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel for The Stratford Man (Ink and Steel and Hell and Earth)

(Not sure if you're familiar with the Hugo, but it's the award that sci/fi fantasy authors would sell their organs to get. It's the Pulitzer/Noble of the field, along with the Nebula for authors who are published in the US. If you win a Hugo or a Nebula, it's the kind of thing that will go on every biography/press release written about you for the rest of your career. It also means that you have a very good chance of having a 20, 30 or 40 year career.)

She is also famous for being one of the touchstone personae of Racefail09, and is thus somewhat of a controversial writer.

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Very familiar on all counts. Especially the Hugo (I've loved Connie Willis and Neil Gaiman since my early teens, so, well aware) and Racefail. I was there too. :)

Edited Date: 2010-06-19 04:47 pm (UTC)

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Racefail 09 was actually one of those things that I winnowed through mostly after the fact, mostly because I was Just Not Looking At That Corner of the Internet when it was happening. I was mostly reading anime-fandoms at the time, whose participants had about zero overlap with Racefail-commentary, and I wasn't subscribing to things like metafandom. I'd actually never heard of Elizabeth Bear before her name started popping up in connection to Racefail-related essays and commentary that actually did cross my path.

So, I really never know who was there and who wasn't, because I was totally not there at the time. :)

As such, I'm really glad that there are people willing to do link round-ups and fandom wikis, because tracking this stuff down link by link by back-tracking user names and postings would likely have been out of my ability.

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