I tell you what, when the notes on what's currently in progress, when folded into the working draft, increase the file's size by 24K? You might be in trouble.

--G.
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zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Well, that's only, what? 3500 words or so?

"What's Past is Prologue" was close to 50k words total, so... having your notes be equal to one-fifteenth or so of the entire work (I'm just ballparking here, obviously) ain't so bad, I don't think.

-Merc
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>Well, that's only, what? 3500 words or so?
>
>"What's Past is Prologue" was close to 50k words total, so... having
>your notes be equal to one-fifteenth or so of the entire work (I'm
>just ballparking here, obviously) ain't so bad, I don't think.

Christ al-flippin-mighty, is there any assertion you won't automatically contradict?

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Well now you've just put me between a rock and a hard place, haven't you? I can either argue with this by saying "Man alive, I was just trying to say it didn't seem as intimidating as all that" and therefore prove you absolutely correct, or just let it sail right over the plate and accept it implicitly as true.

... well played, Hutchins.

-Merc
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>Well now you've just put me between a rock and a hard place, haven't
>you? I can either argue with this by saying "Man alive, I was just
>trying to say it didn't seem as intimidating as all that" and
>therefore prove you absolutely correct, or just let it sail right over
>the plate and accept it implicitly as true.
>
>... well played, Hutchins.

I always kind of hated the old Paranoia RPG, but I have to admit the Spurious Logic skill comes in handy sometimes.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

>I can either argue with this by saying "Man alive, I was just
>trying to say it didn't seem as intimidating as all that" and
>therefore prove you absolutely correct

Well, I will, so you don't have to.

Individual chapters for my stories usually start out as 25 to 30Kb of notes -- for what usually will be about 110-130kb of final text. So the ratio in the original post seems to be just about right for my writing style.

Of course, implicit in the original post is the assumption that Gryphon does not normally generate as much in the way of explicitly written notes prior to composition as either of us do. Which if correct does give him leave to comment on their anomalous quantity in this instance.

-- Bob
(And boy, did that come out sounding a bit stuffy...)
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