Re: The Ellipsis

On 09 Jan 2009, Sara Lorimer wrote

elanders wrote:

Hmm...

That's odd.

I've searched all around and haven't been able to find your
bibliography.

There's no direct connection between the ability to write well
and the ability to be published. I am proof of this.

You're undoubtedly being overly modest; I don't believe for one
minute that the OP has had this sort of crud accepted by a commercial
publisher.

(Not to mention that some of us get paid for applying our writing
skills in fields other than quarter-baked, wannabe-historical fiction
that's doomed to be self-published on the Internet.)

--
Cheers, Harvey
CanEng and BrEng, indiscriminately mixed


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