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>>>To me Bullring seems to be a pale remake of River >>>Rat. Just rename Canyon Tours to Midwest Midget >>>Sportsman Association and use the two recurring >themes >>>of how can the boss find eneough swampers, er >drivers, >>>for the current season and what should one do in >>>off-season. It's still written in Wes' nice style >but >>>somewhat boring. >> >>I can to some degree see your point that they are >>supericially similar, or at least share a couple of >>issues. Having read (and loved) it I would argue it is >>far superior to River rat (the book of Wes's I least >>enjoyed). I also argue that the two issues you have >>brought up are minor issues inside a far larger >whole. >> >>Everyone differs of course. > >To tell the truth, I hadn't even noticed the >commonality between Canyon Tours and the MMSA. I try >to do things a little differently in each book, but >there are bound to be some superficial similarities >slip in from time to time. I try to vary backgrounds >and topics as much as I can, if for no more reason >than to keep writing around different things and >telling different stories in different ways, and to >keep up my own interest as well. I understand that not >all my readers see things the same way. > >Some years ago, a guy I worked for was addicted to an >action-adventure series by a guy whose name I no >longer remember, but I do know the list went over >fifty books. I read a few of them; it took very little >time as they were rather short. In each of them the >plot was exactly the same. I mean, on page 11 the guy >met the girl, on page 32 he had a preliminary >confrontation with the bad guys; on page 87 the girl >was tortured and murdered by the bad guys, and on page >112 there was the beginning of the retribution where a >lot of blood was spread around. By page 127 the good >guy was on the lam getting set up for the next round. >I can't believe the writer took more than a couple >weeks to write each one, and got terminal carpial >tunnel from pounding the keys. The writing was, to be >charitable, lousy. I mean, pulp from the word go. > >Sorry folks, I don't do that; hell, I couldn't do >that. Each one of my books is different or I couldn't >keep up the interest to keep writing. Yes, the odd >theme is going to recur from time to time -- boys do >keep meeting girls, after all, but each story is >different, and I try to do things differently each >time I sit down at the keyboard, with different >characters, different situations, and in the case of >the early part of the Bullring series, different eras. >Though I hate to say it, the fifties were a long time >ago, a distant country where they did things >differently than they do now. > >In the next book to be posted we will be going back to >familiar characters, but facing new challenges. Times >change, and people change. > >I can't please everyone, but at least try to please >myself in my writing. Your mileage may, of course, >vary. > >-- Wes

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