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- From: swkmorri@nuscc.nus.sg (Perry Morrison (Dr))
- Subject: Re: "Wow, You're a Writer!"
- Message-ID: <1992Aug14.025231.24517@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Organization: National University of Singapore
- References: <1992Aug13.164337.3496@thinkage.on.ca>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 02:52:31 GMT
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- jim@thinkage.on.ca (James Alan Gardner) writes:
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- : There's also the tendency for many people to believe they too
- : could be writers if they only sat down and did it. They have
- : "great ideas". Some of them even offer to give you their ideas
- : and all you have to do is write them up. (Wow, such a deal.)
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- Even worse, I've encountered an attitude amongst publishers and
- editors that runs: "Anyone can write--it's just that most of us
- choose not to..."
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- With this kind of "respect", lousy pay, self-doubt, the trauma of
- producing-on-time, isolation etc. they may be right. Or maybe it's
- simply that "MORE people could write for a 'living' (than currently do)
- ---it's just that most of them are FORCED not to..."
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- perry morrison
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