Not better or worse, just clearer, thank you for explaining. The ability to get back into a world hadn't occured to me before, though even if that's what happened with King, I still think it was a sucky thing to do. =>
There's also just the revision factor. If it's one long story, and you're an organic writer, things can become clear to you near the end that simply weren't intellectually what you intended at the beginning. If the work is unpublished (because this can frequently happen in novels), you can go back and change things in a way that support your anvil of realization.
But yes, I can see that it would be a bit disappointing to watch an author do this after the fact.
It's one of the things that strikes people who have written stand-alones but not tightly connected trilogies/xologies -- they can't go back and fix things, or change them, when that type of intuition finally hits. And since they're accustomed to being able to revise the first third of the story by the time they've finished the last third, this can be daunting.
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Date: 2004-11-20 07:17 am (UTC)There's also just the revision factor. If it's one long story, and you're an organic writer, things can become clear to you near the end that simply weren't intellectually what you intended at the beginning. If the work is unpublished (because this can frequently happen in novels), you can go back and change things in a way that support your anvil of realization.
But yes, I can see that it would be a bit disappointing to watch an author do this after the fact.
It's one of the things that strikes people who have written stand-alones but not tightly connected trilogies/xologies -- they can't go back and fix things, or change them, when that type of intuition finally hits. And since they're accustomed to being able to revise the first third of the story by the time they've finished the last third, this can be daunting.