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By: Kait Nolan

Kait Nolan — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:53:37 +0000

Well considering none of them are finished, I’d say that they need less revision and more just straight up completion.

By: dirtywhitecandy

dirtywhitecandy — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:33:56 +0000

That’s great that you’ve fallen in love with old unfinished works – I’ve found that sometimes I’ve made really exciting progress when I’ve come back to novels like this. But I always ask myself if they really DO need revising or whether I’d be better starting something new !

By: Kait Nolan

Kait Nolan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:13:45 +0000

If I only ever wrote things when/if they were fun, I’d never finish ANYTHING. I just have to bull through the middle. That’s always the toughest for me. Thanks for the story!

By: Annette

Annette — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:12:00 +0000

But is it FUN, Kait?? Perhaps your brain wanted some insight from the old projects.
I promised you the folk tale of cheetahs – here it is (yes, I procrastinated, too!)
African legend:
A mother cheetah went off to hunt one day, leaving her 4 cubs hidden. But an evil man was watching her and saw where she had hidden the little ones. He stole the cubs while the mother was away. When she discovered her cubs were missing, she began to cry. She cried so hard that, to this day, all cheetahs have tear tracks on their faces.
The story goes on – A kind man came along and asked why the mother cheetah was crying. She told him of her stolen cubs. The man was angry that someone would take the cheetah’s children and went off to search for them. He found them and returned them to their mother. She was so grateful that she promised that future generations of cheetahs would be loyal to humans.
(this legend may have started as a way to explain why cheetahs are so easily tamed – for wild animals, that is.)