Re: The Idiom - monthly online contest & publication for Short Story Writers

Joann Zimmerman wrote:
In article <44728670.6878C448@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, cicada@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
says...

Coming into a group of
(mostly) serious writers and asking us to give you stories that we've
put significant time and effort into for nothing more than the exposure
of an unknown website is rather like walking up to an established
musician as he walks off-stage from a big concert and telling him you'd
like him to play for free at your four-year-old's birthday party, and
since all your kid's friends will be there to hear him the exposure will
help his career...

And, given Brenda's devastating copy criticism upthread, it's like
delivering that request in baby-talk.

I had trimmed out a followup to that saying that if he does such a
thing, he shouldn't be too surprised if the musician has his roadies
rough him up a little bit before releasing him back into the parking
lot, but I decided that was unneccessarily unkind to what was obviously
just a well-intentioned but clueless dweeb.

Of course, given commentary downthread, I may have made that decision
too hastily.

-Suzanne
.

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