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NEVER NEVER NEVER ask your agent out
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
I think this one definitely falls under "For best results, avoid doing stupid things."
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: blgarver on April 22, 2007, 07:28:14 PM --- Relationships are a pain in the ass and they take time away from writing.
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I would offer a countervailing opinion here, as someone involved for the past more than ten years with, and married for more than five years to, a person who writes for a living and is my best first-reader. Find the right person, preferably one who also writes and understands what it means to take that seriously, and you can get a kind of support you'll find nowhere else.
blgarver:
--- Quote from: neurovore on April 23, 2007, 12:33:50 AM ---I would offer a countervailing opinion here, as someone involved for the past more than ten years with, and married for more than five years to, a person who writes for a living and is my best first-reader. Find the right person, preferably one who also writes and understands what it means to take that seriously, and you can get a kind of support you'll find nowhere else.
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Do you realize how hard it is to find female writers that aren't published that actually write? I'd just love to find a girl who was a writer, and not just claim they are because their degree is in Creative Writing or English. I guess I just need to get out of Saint Joe. Nobody does anything but get drunk in this town.
Dom:
Hee...you know how hard it is to find guys who aren't published but actually write? And don't just claim to because of their English-oriented degrees?
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There's always more people who claim to write then actually do. Although, you probably will need to reach out of town to find one; in High School, I was in a creative writing class, and there were only 3 people in the entire class who actually wrote stories (rather then poems/lyrics/etc)...myself, another girl, and one guy. And I have no clue if all 3 of us are still writing or not (I am, who knows about them though). The school literary magazine was chock full of poems, so that any story that vaguely followed rules of English grammar and structure, which was put in front of the student judges, got voted in because they needed stories badly. I got two poorly written stories in just because they were story format. (Although I didn't see them as poorly written then...)
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
--- Quote from: blgarver on April 23, 2007, 01:34:12 PM ---Do you realize how hard it is to find female writers that aren't published that actually write?
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Why is "aren't published" a criterion here ? For what it's worth, I haven't found it particularly difficult to meet people who take writing seriously, published or not, female or male. Conventions and the right places online have worked.
--- Quote ---I guess I just need to get out of Saint Joe. Nobody does anything but get drunk in this town.
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I can quite sympathise with that one, though. Small-town Ireland was pretty harsh to grow up in in terms of finding people who shared interests with me.
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