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RMatthewWare:
Use what you wrote before as an outline.  Then, completely rewrite.  It's easier to rewrite trash than to fix it.  It's like a house that's falling down.  You can spend time and effort to fix it, or you can just bulldoze and rebuild.

Uilos:
I'm doing that. I'm just looking at it and going "shit, I sucked..."

Velkyn_Faer:

--- Quote from: Uilos on July 28, 2007, 06:50:15 AM ---Yeah, I'm discovering the same thing, except this is just a difference of a few months. I think it's just that I've gotten used to the world and some of the rules in it. The first few chapters were only a few pages long and only really scratched the surface. Now my chapters are at least in the 20's and go into alot more depth

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I feel ya, there. I finished the story and started right into the sequel, which is about halfway done, and I noticed the sequel writing and story is so much more... fitting and real for the world than the beginning of the first. And, yeah, I stared at my screen as I was going over the first chapters and wondered how I got away with writing such trash.

Uilos:
Well, I figured I'm going to write the story, just to get the damned thing done with. Then Tool with it when I work on the manuscript.

Velkyn_Faer:

--- Quote from: Uilos on August 07, 2007, 06:02:18 AM ---Well, I figured I'm going to write the story, just to get the damned thing done with. Then Tool with it when I work on the manuscript.

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That's true. It's a big step to just get it finished and out there, instead of a buncha ideas floatin' around inside my head. When you think about it, fixing it up is a lot less effort than doin' the story itself. Maybe not to everyone, but to me, at least.

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