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Subject: Re: {ASSD} It just occured to me...
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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:46:06 +0000
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"Evil Nigel" <useweb@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> cmsix wrote:
>
>> that there are a lot of pseudo bullshit rules you pick up as you go
> along.
>> For instance, I remember hearing lots of times that I should always
> finish
>> what I start. Who says?
>
> When it comes to a story, I think it's better to finish them if you can.
> Sometimes the inspiration runs dry or you run into a dead end - my sock
> puppet has hit that a couple of times and I feel guilty when people
> write in to say "I enjoyed XXXXX, are you going to continue?"
>
> I'm very pushed for time at the moment, so my sock puppet's latest
> series is a more-or-less self-contained set of stories linked by a
> single character and 'universe' which I can drop or pick up at any time.
>
>> A guy posting his work on stories on StoriesOnline.net even posted
> what he
>> called a Maxi-Flash the other day named "Why I Never Seem To Finish My
>> Stories" and since he left a sort of short thankyou note to me at the
> end of
>> his blurb I looked inside and searched for my nym in the text. It was in
>> there three times.
>>
>> I didn't read the piece since the title got right up my nose in the
> first
>> place and it made me think he put my name in the blurb as further
>> advertisement. I ended up pissing and moaning to Lazeez and getting
> my nym
>> removed from the blurb, though I didn't ask to have it taken out of his
>> story.
>
> I think it's very bad form to mention another person either by name or
> by implication without obtaining their permission. I hope my sock puppet
> has behaved ethically in that respect.
Well I thought it was a little rude myself, though using me in a story
wasn't as bad to me as putting me in the blurb, as if I approved, got right
up my nose.
>
>> The title did make me wonder what's so great about finishing what you
> start?
>> Who says you're supposed to and how can they be qualified to know? Is it
>> even beneficial to finish what you start everytime. Why hell no it
> isn't.
>> We'd surely be fucked if Hitler had finished what he started wouldn't
> we.
>> I'm sure there are millions of examples that show finishing what you
> start
>> isn't always so good a thing at all.
>>
>> Personally I'd be a lot worse off if I finished what I started
> everytime,
>> because I'd be a fucking Dentist now if I'd been anal about such things.
>
> Dentists seem to appear in sex stories quite frequently, getting a lot
> of gratuitous exploitive sex. Perhaps dentistry is underrated.
>
>> So, what do you think. Is finishing what you started a good thing
> everytime,
>> or is that some bullshit somebody said a long time ago that just
> caught on
>> because it sounded snappy and profound?
>>
>> cmsix
>
> There are probably more examples in favour than against (eg I wish
> Microsoft would finish testing their software before releasing it), but
> they're your stories and you can do with them as you please.
The trouble is we just can't be sure either way. If Microsoft finished what
it started all the time we'd all have Microsoft for a middle name.
cmsix
>
> Evil Nigel
>
>
>