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posted by [personal profile] purplecthulhu at 04:10pm on 16/07/2007
No sale from Darker Matter.

Some positive comments - 'it's a good story with an interesting premise' - but I'm beginning to wonder if the telling of this story in future tense is as good an idea as it seemed when I wrote it. Oddly, it was the entire reason for writing it when I started...
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posted by [identity profile] secritcrush.livejournal.com at 03:30pm on 16/07/2007
What was the purpose of telling it in future tense?
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posted by [identity profile] purplecthulhu.livejournal.com at 03:52pm on 16/07/2007
The story concerns interpretations of quantum mechanics, and whether free will exists. The future tense was intended to demonstrate the final conclusion of the story - hyperdeterminism - but I'm beginning to think it was a rather blunt tool.

The origin of the story was as a response to some idiot mainstream writer saying something along the lines of 'I couldn't write science fiction because then I'd have to use future tense!' and my wondering what justification there might be for using future tense. And that's where quantum hyperdeterminism came in.

Does that make sense?
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posted by [identity profile] holyoutlaw.livejournal.com at 01:00am on 17/07/2007
It makes sense, but I've heard more than one writer say they've had to throw away the part of the story that "was the entire reason for writing it when I started..."

But then again, I am not a writer, soooo....
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