Rodrigo Castilho
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Jeremy Bates:
Have you ever had issues with second thoughts about your stories? As in, a development that you wrote, but then you realized it was too obvious or just "too easy"? If so, how do you cope with that?
Jeremy Bates
Hey Rodrigo,
I have seconds thoughts with pretty much every book! lol
It usually hits around midway... The beginning goes smooth, then I get stuck in the middle and wonder... is this going to work? Usually I spend anywhere from days to even a weeks puzzling out what to do...and thankfully a solution comes that usually clicks and fits (and funny enough it is usually such a simple solution too).
One great example I like is Stephen King. He said once when writing The Stand he got to halfway and was going to give up because he had way too many characters to continue the book. It took him weeks of pondering until he decided to simply blow half of them up!
He said it solved all his problems just like that.
I have seconds thoughts with pretty much every book! lol
It usually hits around midway... The beginning goes smooth, then I get stuck in the middle and wonder... is this going to work? Usually I spend anywhere from days to even a weeks puzzling out what to do...and thankfully a solution comes that usually clicks and fits (and funny enough it is usually such a simple solution too).
One great example I like is Stephen King. He said once when writing The Stand he got to halfway and was going to give up because he had way too many characters to continue the book. It took him weeks of pondering until he decided to simply blow half of them up!
He said it solved all his problems just like that.
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