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Originally Posted by pking36330
BTW, my novel is unpublished and best left that way. After setting it aside for a few months and then re-reading it, I had two reactions:
1. The drivel I wrote isn't worth wasting ink on...not even e-ink
2. Renewed respect for authors like Simon and others who really can tell an engaging story
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Pking, I still have an early draft of Hal from 1994, and it was far worse than drivel. I used to get thoroughly disheartened when I compared my junk to published books.
You can't compare a finished product to a work in progress - for example, I do about 18-22 drafts of each novel. This is a pic of the drafts for No Free Lunch, which piled up and up as I wrote and rewrote the book. (And never mind all the drafts I didn't print, scribble on, rewrite, correct and mangle.)
If you read the one at the bottom (sealed in the red folder with 'NEVER READ AGAIN' stencilled on the cover), you'd wonder how such an amateur could ever be offered a publishing contract.