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Kurt Busiek

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From: Kurt Busiek <k...@busiek.comics>

Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 11:31:40 -0700

Local: Fri, Jul 4 2008 11:31 pm

Subject: Re: Common First Author Mistakes - What are they, and are there SF speficic ones?

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On 2008-07-04 11:18:37 -0700, Konrad Gaertner <kgaert...@tx.rr.com> said:

> phdu...@gmail.com wrote:

>> And I was wondering, what are these problems? The only one I can
>> think of is the 'kitchen sink' problem, where every cool idea the
>> author's ever had shows up in one book, but I'm sure there's more.
>> Are there any sfnal specific first novel problems?

> Telling instead of showing, railroad plots, idiot plots, sloppy
> scene changes, inconsistant internal chronology.

What is a "railroad plot"? I'm unfamiliar with the term.

kdb

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