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icarusOn breaking the rules
I have a rule: do not change published stories.
Once it's out there, for good or ill, I leave it alone.
All authors want to fiddle, I suppose. Even Huxley once said he itched to change A Brave New World. He felt he'd been far too naive(!).
But tinkering, you risk losing what worked.
I'm breaking my rule.
A reader on ff.net pointed out that Star Drive is a good story, but it drops off a cliff. Exactly what my beta said in 2010. I agreed but I was one day away from the deadline.
enname helped me fix it.
Welcome to the new, improved Star Drive.
Ten thousand years ago, a cabal of militant anti-Ascensionists had a plan to force the Ancients to stand and fight the Wraith. Today, all they need is John Sheppard to set it into motion.
I have a rule: do not change published stories.
Once it's out there, for good or ill, I leave it alone.
All authors want to fiddle, I suppose. Even Huxley once said he itched to change A Brave New World. He felt he'd been far too naive(!).
But tinkering, you risk losing what worked.
I'm breaking my rule.
A reader on ff.net pointed out that Star Drive is a good story, but it drops off a cliff. Exactly what my beta said in 2010. I agreed but I was one day away from the deadline.
enname helped me fix it.Welcome to the new, improved Star Drive.
Ten thousand years ago, a cabal of militant anti-Ascensionists had a plan to force the Ancients to stand and fight the Wraith. Today, all they need is John Sheppard to set it into motion.
