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Bill, I know what you mean. Chazz had some excellent fics going on, as
did the rest of the list of people you pointed out. We never hear anything
from the ListMatriarch anymore; ElizaLover has stopped writing fic and
become a Paragon of Feedback; I'd almost forgotten Tony McD WROTE fic;
Anne-Lise has restricted herself to snippets it seems.
More and more authors are putting projects on hold. Sasha Chase (as an example) hasn't done anything new due to work, her website, and a recent hospital stay. I keep telling her to take a vacation. My situation is on a par of everyone else's. I had a monitor that was out of service for two months. I finally managed to replace it, but now I have college classes eating up more and more of my time. By next Tuesday, I have to have a six page report and a boatload of research done for a Sociology class; seven C++ programs completed (though not that bad, I have to borrow a friend's laptop because my 'puter is too weak to compile; an eight minute oral speech. I'm going for a Professional Writing Degreee: when do I have time to write in all this? Does this mean I'll stop? No. But I am tired of the impatience of some people. We writers have other lives. Sometimes, it gets completely in the way of what we'd like to do. If there is a gap between parts, or chapters, or whatever: deal. Can't wait for the next part? Write your own version and petition the original author - maybe they'll let you take over. I'm surprised Jim and Pat Kelly still find the time. I have less time to READ fic than when I was working - at least that stopped after nine hours. Personally, I'd love to give Tera a medal for doing what most of us don't have the time to (and that's all I'm gonna say about feedback). The biggest two problems I see are: 1) Lack of time and 2) Writers' Block and/or Alternate Inspiration. We get tons of story ideas, some of them screaming to be written (at 4 in the morning when you have to get up in three hours). I still would like to do the Soul Mating series and the Nexus series and the Slayer World miniseries and the Dance Partners miniseries and the B5 Shadows Long Cast crossover series... and the Intervention series, of course. Unfortunately, I still haven't worked out all the bugs for a neural interface, and Dragon Speaking doesn't recognize half the words I use. You know what it's like, Bill. We'll slowly grow more silent, until all that's left is a vague rememberance of what we once wrote. The stories will hang unfinished, unheralded... and it'll be wonderful to know it was all because people cared so much. Phoen Dusk
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