I was going through my followed authors list and realised he not posted anything since july '23 so does anyoine have any updates about/from him?
I was going through my followed authors list and realised he not posted anything since july '23 so does anyoine have any updates about/from him?
I have not and hope for the best for him. Was one of the more interesting and imaginative writers here
Last contact said his house had burned down while he was out of town so he would be offline for awhile. That kind of thing can be very difficult to recover from both financially and emotionally. Very very stressful.
Lazlo Zalezac's abode suffered a lightning strike some time around 2011, his computer was toasted then and there. That's the reason he had two unfinished stories (More Magic, The Quatyl) dating from around then.
I've lost enough promising stories, I can relate, as even if you rewrite it from scratch, the new stories rarely turn out the same way! So mostly, if your computer, or more likely your HD fries, I tend to abandon ALL of those 'most-promising' stories, knowing they won't be as 'magical' as the first. And if I'm not captivated by my own story, how can I expect anyone else to be?
Often, what makes a story captivating is author's enthusiasm, as that comes across on the page (and which is often why, when a story goes amiss, readers will also know the reader has officially 'lost their way' in the story, and are unlikely to ever find it again. That's another of those things you learn after writing multiple stories, though some authors are much better at completely rewriting a story, as opposed to simply revising an existing one. So I guess it's more of a personal perspective thing.