RARA-AVIS: Writing the same book, over and over

• Next message: Mark Sullivan: "Re: RARA-AVIS: THE ILIAD"

• Previous message: JIM DOHERTY: "Re: Writing the same book, over and over (was) RARA-AVIS: Chandle r or Hammett"
• In reply to: JIM DOHERTY: "Re: Writing the same book, over and over (was) RARA-AVIS: Chandle r or Hammett"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

JIM wrote: And a cook can use the same basic recipe over and over again, while varying the ingredients here and there to add variety.

**************** I think one of the serious dangers in a series is not always the similarity but sometimes the variations. A writer becomes tired of the recipe, even if it is a proven commodity, and ventures too far from home. I sorta had that feeling about the Edward Aaron ASSIGNMENT novel I read recently.

miker

__________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/

--
# Plain ASCII text only, please.  Anything else won't show up.
# To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to
# majordomo@icomm.ca.  This will not work for the digest version.
# The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .

• Next message: Mark Sullivan: "Re: RARA-AVIS: THE ILIAD"
• Previous message: JIM DOHERTY: "Re: Writing the same book, over and over (was) RARA-AVIS: Chandle r or Hammett"
• In reply to: JIM DOHERTY: "Re: Writing the same book, over and over (was) RARA-AVIS: Chandle r or Hammett"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 05 Dec 2003 EST