Failed Projects
You start off with the best of intentions, but through raging incompetence, ineptitude or the plain fact that you're working in IT, things go terribly wrong and there's hell to pay. Tell us about the epic failures that have brought big ideas to their knees. Or just blame someone else.
( , Thu 3 Dec 2009, 14:19)
You start off with the best of intentions, but through raging incompetence, ineptitude or the plain fact that you're working in IT, things go terribly wrong and there's hell to pay. Tell us about the epic failures that have brought big ideas to their knees. Or just blame someone else.
( , Thu 3 Dec 2009, 14:19)
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Did you start counting them
and then give up?
Anyway apparently the best way to do it is, rather than starting with chapter 1 and keeping going, to start by doing a short summary of the story. Then write it again, with a bit more detail. Then with a bit more, and so on until you're writing it out as it will be in the finished novel.
( , Fri 4 Dec 2009, 11:23, 1 reply)
and then give up?
Anyway apparently the best way to do it is, rather than starting with chapter 1 and keeping going, to start by doing a short summary of the story. Then write it again, with a bit more detail. Then with a bit more, and so on until you're writing it out as it will be in the finished novel.
( , Fri 4 Dec 2009, 11:23, 1 reply)
That sounds like a good piece of advice.
I never would have thought of it.
( , Fri 4 Dec 2009, 13:14, closed)
I never would have thought of it.
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