http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/14/any-resemblance-is-purely-accidental/ A mutual support group for SF/F Novelists Sat, 30 Aug 2008 12:36:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/14/any-resemblance-is-purely-accidental/#comment-1025 Marie Brennan Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:46:04 +0000 http://www.sfnovelists.com/2007/11/14/any-resemblance-is-purely-accidental/#comment-1025 It depends on what kind of smartness you're looking for. I can do the sort that require investigation or assembling of facts into a larger picture, because <i>I</i> decide what the thing to be discovered is, then lead the characters to it. Cunning plan smartness, though, I have a harder time with. My cunning plans feel decidedly lacking, at least to me. It depends on what kind of smartness you’re looking for. I can do the sort that require investigation or assembling of facts into a larger picture, because I decide what the thing to be discovered is, then lead the characters to it. Cunning plan smartness, though, I have a harder time with. My cunning plans feel decidedly lacking, at least to me.

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