Dragaera

back to Re: Brust interview

Thu May 13 17:42:47 PDT 2004

On Tue, 11 May 2004, skzb wrote:

> This is getting kind of silly.
>
> My problem with using ideas that I've read on the list has nothing to do
> with any legal questions.  It has more to do with thinking, "Oh.  Someone
> else came up with that?  Well, I guess it must be too predictable/"  I hate
> being predictable.  On the other hand, changing something I think is cool
> just because someone else had the idea is problamatical.
>
> For the moment, at least, I've left that scene in.  By the time I get to the
> end of the book, like as not I'll have decided that the scene doesn't fit in
> anyway.

I realize the horse is mostly dead, but I had to chime in with the though
that rather than predictable, are you perhaps broadcasting your thoughts
to the list again? In any event, I'm folding my aluminium hat as we speak
just in case.

--Brother Ike