as much as it hated me, I do find myself homesick for the South, from time to time. Then again, I am an admitted masochist.
The South got you writing and got you singing. Putting yourself out there in more than one way, Not Being Fucking Quiet, so it had some positive impact on your life. And almost any place you'd been for 20-30 years is going to have some positive associations. (The one place I've been that I honestly say "I don't miss it" is my junior high school in Northern Virginia. I was only there two years, but even that had positive connotations: it was there that I really got into article writing and Monty Python, for two examples. So there's still something cool that came for me out of that experience, as miserable as it was.)
Ever tempted to significantly or completely change the incidents of an older story? New endings and such?
It has occurred to me. So far, I've resisted.
Ask Harlan Ellison if he'd hand off any of his need-to-be-rewritten old-old stories and see what you'd do with them if you rewrote them. Like that 1950s story he took out of Stalking the Nightmare -- "Invincible"? "Invulnerable"? basically about Superman being involved in the space race -- that he decided needed too much work to republish, but then Stephen King mentioned and even quoted from the story in his introduction, so it was conspicuous by its absence. (That story had the line "There were guards; guards on the guards; and guards to guard the guards' guards.") Might be an interesting quick exercise, at least. It'd likely amuse Harlan, too.
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The South got you writing and got you singing. Putting yourself out there in more than one way, Not Being Fucking Quiet, so it had some positive impact on your life. And almost any place you'd been for 20-30 years is going to have some positive associations. (The one place I've been that I honestly say "I don't miss it" is my junior high school in Northern Virginia. I was only there two years, but even that had positive connotations: it was there that I really got into article writing and Monty Python, for two examples. So there's still something cool that came for me out of that experience, as miserable as it was.)
Ever tempted to significantly or completely change the incidents of an older story? New endings and such?
It has occurred to me. So far, I've resisted.
Ask Harlan Ellison if he'd hand off any of his need-to-be-rewritten old-old stories and see what you'd do with them if you rewrote them. Like that 1950s story he took out of Stalking the Nightmare -- "Invincible"? "Invulnerable"? basically about Superman being involved in the space race -- that he decided needed too much work to republish, but then Stephen King mentioned and even quoted from the story in his introduction, so it was conspicuous by its absence. (That story had the line "There were guards; guards on the guards; and guards to guard the guards' guards.") Might be an interesting quick exercise, at least. It'd likely amuse Harlan, too.