>When you consider the sheer volume of works (Both in titles, series,
>and K-bytes) that EPU has produced over the last 10 some years, I'd be
>suprised if their writing style HADN"T matured. You simply can't
>write as much as they have without learning a few things along the
>way! That's also why you can't point to a single piece and state that
>"this is where EPU grew up", because there isn't one! Its been an
>ongoing process from the time they sat down with this wierd idea of
>"Hey, lets write ourselfs a story about Us" and first commited
>Undocumented Features to bytes to now.

You know, I just said as much in a private email to Gryphon a week or so ago. I've been writing seriously for about 21 years, not counting some half-hearted stuff in high school in the late 70s. (Yes, I'm almost 40. Anyone want to make anything of it? <grin>) Even though I have had no small success with my writing -- twelve years of professional sales, including fiction -- I really don't think my skills have evolved and improved as much in that period as the Eyrie crew's collective and individual abilities have in half that time.

Frankly, I'm envious, and I told Gryphon so.

(I sometimes wonder what starting my own version of UF will do for my skills... then I realize that I don't have enough time left in my life to add that kind of monster project to the mix... DW is enough for now...)

-- Bob
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Maya: Isn't there anything we can do?
Ritsuko-chan: Well, there is one thing we haven't tried. We can pray real hard!
-- from Tenshi Muyo! Rei-o-ohki