Re: Any advice on planning?

Kat R wrote:
David Friedman wrote:
In article <J46HvH.7J1@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:

I begin to wonder how old Quaestor is. If he's still in high
school, he may be beginning to have the experience that many of
us had when we first got into college.

My initial assumption was 20-30. But since then he has posted that it took him 40+ years to learn to write fiction, so even if he started early he has to be at least in his forties. Other things he has posted suggest that he might be about our age.


And yet the tone, the improper spellings, misuse of pronouns, fractured structure and so on--especially when he at one point implied he had done some editing--give the impression that he is either lying about that 40+ or he is unusually behind for his age. Though I suppose English might not be his first language or might have physical/emotional issues that cause him difficulty in expressing himself under stress.

Bearing in mind the information about his posts from 6 years ago, if asked, I'd say he was in his early 20s, in fact, and the rest is posing.

I would have guessed sixteen to early twenties based on his posts to date.


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