From:	Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject:	Reflections on time....
Date:	Wed, 31 May 2000 21:44:51 -0500

From: Rand Ratinac
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 11:51 PM

> > Okay, so it's a little contrived (you seldom have
> > all your fights near a handy time-piece, after all),
> > and it's certainly not the best prose I've ever turned
> > out, but I think it shows you that it can be done.
> > (And I don't think it's bad for 10 minutes work.)
>
> Stylistically, not bad.

You're too kind. It's not really, IMHO, representative of what I do; I
don't tend to write in first person, either. And I really was cranking out
really fast, all things considered. Probably not even the ten minutes I
flattered myself with yesterday.

> If I were reading it in a book, however, I'd think it was
> contrived and gimmicky. No offense intended, Patrick, but
> that's how it seems.

It was contrived and gimmicky; I think I said so myself. <g>

> And what happens when you need to write
> fight scenes at this speed 5 or more times in the
> book?

I don't tend to go into great detail, myself. I've found it unnecessary to
go into that sort of detail for each fight scene.

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Patrick E. Goodman
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