Johne Cook writes: >>From: Joshua Kronengold <mneme at io.com> >> >Presumably (following the Dumas model) he writes an outline, has >> >a prose-farm do a first draft, then adds some color at the end. >>IIRC, this is actually a false rumor -- Dumas did often work with >>collaberators (one at a time, usually), but no more. >I have read a number of things to the contrary. I'd be interested in seeing >linkage to support this statement, as the things I'd read awhle ago (when I >was in my Dumas phase after reading TPG and FHYA) supported the prose farm >story. Interesting. Because what I've read on the subject includes hard evidence of him working with collaborators (Maquet, chiefly, but not solely, eventually leading to a lawsuit), and huge controversies at the time on whether he ever wrote his own books rather than having them largely be written by his collaborators, but not the "prose farm" concept I've seen only in rumors. -- Joshua Kronengold (mneme at io.com) "I've been teaching |\ _,,,--,,_ ,) --^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the /,`.-'`' -, ;-;;' /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning. |,4- ) )-,_ ) /\ /-\\\I'm sorry if I kept him out too late"--Vlad Taltos '---''(_/--' (_/-'