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So, we are right in the midst of a major remodel. Our circa 1960s, tiny 1-butt kitchen, and our much larger dining room are swapping spaces. This truly is a very good thing . . . and it will look amazing once it is finished.
Right now it is a chaotic disaster area. A huge skylight is almost framed in. Then the drywall goes up for that, the new ceilings (to get rid of the 1960s popcorn ceiling) are currently leaning against any available wall space, and I've discovered that when you take off a bit of wall or add a bit of wall, that impacted the other side of said walls. This will necessitate more drywall work and then you can't paint part of a wall without the original wall paint looking the 10 years old it is. So all the communal walls will also be painted. Fun fun!
The flooring is piled in the garage awaiting the drywall and the new cabinets being installed. Everything that was in the dining room is boxed and piled around the house while the furniture is in a new storage unit. The food from our pantry is stacked everywhere. Air hoses for impact nailers snake around the floors. The dog, afraid of loud noises cowers under my desk. . . and it will look amazing once it is finished.
In the meantime, I hide (cower?) in my office trying to finish my memoir. Many of the pieces in my port are a part of that. MANY of them. I thought that most could be merely copied/pasted into a functioning order. Except that many were written years ago. Decades. Some are as old as our house.
So all of that is also 'being remodeled.' Something like 600 stories, poems, and essays. This, too, truly is a very good thing . . . and it will be amazing once it is finished. I thought the majority of these pieces were 'finished.' Looking back over them again, I realized that they so are not!
And just as picking out new countertops and paint colors is fun and exciting, so too is going through all of my writing! Tightening, expanding, condensing, remodeling--oh wait-- rewriting (!) my work. Appreciating changed and modified perspectives and making the decisions to keep an old viewpoint or updating them to reflect the where, who, and how I am now. Finding the balance between new, old, and continuing!
It might be fun to go back and peruse some of your older pieces to see if some of them could stand updating. I know I am a far better writer now than I once was. I expect most of you are too!
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Elfin Dragon-finally published  writes: You were talking about scenes you remember in a story even after a long period of time has passed. One of the first books I read was by Piers Anthony, "A Spell for Chameleon". There was a scene when the mage was throwing spells at our hero to prove he didn't have any magic and he thought he kept missing. Yet when our hero stood still and the mage cast the spell...the very air around our hero turned into butterflies! He had an area of nil-magic around him. I also remember the scene in a Frank Frazetta book, "Prisoner of the Horned Helmet", but I won't repeat it because it's fairly gruesome.
buddhangela's Wounded Not Dead  comments: Hi Fyn– I think this is your best ever newsletter. I read every word, slowly. Really well thought out and written. My condolences for your losses over the past year–it's been rough all around, I think.
Thank you! This made my day!!!
BIG BAD WOLF is hopping  says: For me, it's not the death of a character that bothers me, it's when they decide to do a "They Killed Kenny, Again!" formula, where the writer Repeatedly makes a series of stories about Kenny being killed, and after a while, it becomes annoying to me. "South Park" losses its humor after a while for me. There's also the pointless/meaningless deaths - I think that Death should mean something - death of a loved one, death of a mentor, death of a tough fighter that proves that enemies are highly dangerous to the young recruit, or even a Hero's First Kill that makes them throw up - otherwise the death holds no impact. But, I guess that's just me..... some people like seeing Kenny die all the time, especially when the death means nothing to the plot.
Sorry for the ramble - I've read a series where a "Kenny" is repeatedly killed, and I've also had a few characters in an interactive that were repeatedly killed by another author who made the deaths very pointless..... there's reasons that I believe that a character should only be killed once, especially if the death is supposedly permanent. I don't mind Respawns - use that more often than not - but a True Death should mean something, and the character shouldn't keep getting killed, as the death loses its impact.
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