Padding?

António Pedro Marques · 30 Nov 2010, 18:16 · from 2010-November.txt.gz

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Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 18:16:19 +0000
Subject: (urth) Padding?
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Craig Brewer wrote (30-11-2010 18:02):
> (...) And my bet is that when Wolfe was originally writing the thing, he
> was thinking primarily as a professional genre writer would: I have my
> story, and now I have to add to it because my editor/publisher wants
> more. I don't want to screw up the plot I've laid out, so how can I add
> to this appropriately in a way that won't require all kinds of plot-level
> restructuring?

Iinm NS was to be a trilogy, but then the third volume was promising to get
too big, so it had to be split. Then yes, some padding may have been needed
to fatten one of the resulting volumes.

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