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  3. From: mtan@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Maureen Tan)
  4. Subject: Re: Publishing Children's Books?
  5. References: <1992Sep8.032855.20659@bcrka451.bnr.ca> <1992Sep8.093720.26059@reed.edu> <1992Sep9.125736.18573@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <1992Sep9.201123.15884@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>
  6. Message-ID: <mtan-090992164214@maureen.cen.uiuc.edu>
  7. Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
  8. Followup-To: misc.writing
  9. Organization: UIUC
  10. Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 22:03:40 GMT
  11. Lines: 29
  12.  
  13. In article <1992Sep9.201123.15884@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca>,
  14. marcy@sqwest.wimsey.bc.ca (Marcy Thompson) wrote:
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  16.  
  17.  
  18. > Mildly related question: is there *any* sort of writing whose practitioners
  19. > *don't* find themselves routinely accused of not being serious?
  20.  
  21.  
  22. Sure.  There's *significant* women's literature, which I never mastered
  23. 'cause I couldn't stay depressed long enough.
  24.  
  25. And then there's interpretive science writing.
  26.  I can  do this kind of writing  because in grammar school I figured
  27. out how to ask the same dumb question in many different ways
  28. until I finally got an answer I understood.  This is a especially great
  29. field if you really want to impress people  with all the
  30. complicated stuff you know  in spite of the fact that you are
  31. nothing but a writer and  didn't become a *real* professional.
  32. (Of course, you never admit that your *real* profession is
  33. writing  suspense.)
  34.  
  35. Hmm.  That sounded a little cynical...    Must be the time o' day.
  36.  
  37. The truth is, respect or no, I'd rather be a writer than anything else
  38. I can imagine.  Except maybe a multi-millionaire living on an exotic
  39. South Sea island and having to spend so much time with my boats,
  40. horses, and cars that I couldn't possible set fingers to key board.  (I
  41. wonder if I'd eventually buy a dictaphone???)
  42.