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| Posted By : Rob Santa - 11/13/2006 2:25 PM | The new FF review is here. And without a variety of deadlines (writing and otherwise) looming over my head, I will see if I can get some more in on something that resembles a regular basis.
Rob Santa |
| Posted By : Dragon Angel - 11/13/2006 2:34 PM | Great issue, BTW. Honest but not brutally so (thought the authors may disagree).
BTW, I'm not sure your wife would like you picking up pretty girls at bars, but maye she's very liberal?
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| Posted By : Rob Santa - 11/13/2006 10:44 PM | Are you kidding? I'm so out of practice I'd probably ask them what records they like to listen to?
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| Posted By : Daniel - 11/13/2006 10:49 PM | Nice work, Rob. Interesting to see a past winner of the contest review the newest winning entries.
Thanks for keeping FF up to date.
Daniel
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| Posted By : Jeff Stehman - 11/14/2006 1:17 AM | Good column, Rob. I more or less agree with you on the stories, and I also avoid entry-fee contests, but Ralan is worth supporting.
You do have to consider the possibility that some of the authors cheated by putting all their energy into the opening. I told my beta readers that the opening had to be great, and the rest of it had to be not humiliating. 
--Jeff Stehman |
| Posted By : Rob Santa - 11/14/2006 8:36 AM | I certainly considered it, seeing as how that's all that's needed to get into the money with this contest. It's still an excellent writing exercise, but I wouldn't want my story to be a great hook and little else. I'm sure these authors don't feel their stories are "little else;" they just didn't knock my socks off. And since I knew the parameters of the contest, most of them came off as one-trick ponies. If I didn't know the focus was on the hook, maybe I would have had a different opinion. I doubt it, but as a firm believer in the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle's application to everything in life, I can't discount it. Gotta love slipping a combination of quantum physics and philosophy into a casual discussion about writing. Dorks, bow before me, for I am your king!
Rob Santa |
| Posted By : Jeff Stehman - 11/14/2006 11:09 AM | I am bowing before you, but at the same time, not bowing before you. 
--Jeff Stehman |
| Posted By : Bruce Durham - 11/15/2006 11:18 PM | Nice work, Rob.
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| Posted By : carnifexpress - 11/18/2006 8:09 PM | Rob,
Nice article... you put a lot into it and it shows.
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