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Topic	Sit down and write the damn thing.
FortuneCookie 02/09/24 4:09:49 PM #11:	ai123 posted... That's not 'over' revision, That's bad revision. Often the result of too many different people having input. An author refining their work with a competent editor will get best results. Don't even worry about 'over' revision, and definitely don't make it an excuse for not working on the text. True. Each one of the three examples that I mentioned had outside input. Super Mario Bros.: The Movie had new directors wanting to turn the story into Blade Runner Lite for the MTV generation before Nintendo told them to cut out the violence and sexual innuendo. Tomorrow Never Dies had Henry Kissinger of all people telling them that their original plot was a bad idea. They hastily cobbled together a new story about a news mogul starting wars so that he could write about them. And The Lost World saw Michael Crichton pressured by Steven Spielberg to write a sequel he never intended only for 80% of the content to be disregarded. But, still. I do run into issues on my own. Like, I feel that my antagonist is lacking, so I flesh them out and develop their personality more only to read older notes and discover that this was a case where less was certainly more. <cite>FortuneCookie posted [p:978751258] in Sit down a... [t:80692516]...</cite> <quote>ai123 posted... </cite><quote>That's not 'over' revision, That's bad revision. Often the result of too many different people having input.An author refining their work with a competent editor will get best results.Don't even worry about 'over' revision, and definitely don't make it an excuse for not working on the text.</quote>True. Each one of the three examples that I mentioned had outside input.Super Mario Bros.: The Movie had new directors wanting to turn the story into Blade Runner Lite for the MTV generation before Nintendo told them to cut out the violence and sexual innuendo. Tomorrow Never Dies had Henry Kissinger of all people telling them that their original plot was a bad idea. They hastily cobbled together a new story about a news mogul starting wars so that he could write about them. And The Lost World saw Michael Crichton pressured by Steven Spielberg to write a sequel he never intended only for 80% of the content to be disregarded.But, still. I do run into issues on my own. Like, I feel that my antagonist is lacking, so I flesh them out and develop their personality more only to read older notes and discover that this was a case where less was certainly more. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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