In article <VJadnftdh9i--3vanZ2dnUVZ_tGonZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Ken from Chicago <kwicker1b_nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>We've often seen critically and commercially successful authors run smack
>into a wall, the dreaded writer's block, or, in many ways, worse,
coasting
>into a rut, a valley, churning out fluff while banking on one's
reputation
>of previously good to great work.
>
>But what about those who've fallen into a valley--and yet risen out of
it?
>Those who've had long gaps in their writing career only to resurge as
good
>if not greater than ever? Those who've fallen off their authorial horses,
>but gotten up, shook themselves off and climbed back in the writing
saddle
>again?
Well, Asimov, for instance. His later fiction was, IMO, purely
awful.
Except that toward the end of his life he pulled his socks back
up and wrote "Gold," which was pretty darned good.
Dorothy J. Heydt
Albany, California
djheydt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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