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Rob Santa
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Date Joined Apr 2004
Total Posts : 1391
| Posted 6/16/2005 7:15 AM (GMT -4) |   | Ten Reasons to Love Being a Speculative Fiction Writer...
10. Nobody thinks you're wasting your time.
9. We can ask a group of peers what a one-handed Norman axe would do to a bare thigh, and none of them think it's a strange question.
8. We're able to spend an hour on the computer and the family leaves us alone.
7. The mail's arrival is cause for excitement.
6. Regardless of what else we do in life, we all know how long it would take to reach Alpha Centauri at .89 the speed of light.
5. The use of commas can spark an hour long debate among peers.
4. We can spend an afternoon in the book store and not once set foot in the Self Help section.
3. If the postal worker doesn't know what to do when we request an IRC, we can give them step-by-step instructions.
2. Members of the opposite sex think it's cool (okay, maybe that's a stretch).
and the best reason of all...
1. Every now and then, dinner is on an editor.
Rob
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Daniel
Carl Jung's Waterboy
Date Joined Aug 2003
Total Posts : 4515
| Posted 6/16/2005 9:17 AM (GMT -4) | | LOL, someone needs to write a "top ten reasons to be an editor!"
Very nice, Rob.
Daniel
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Jeff Stehman
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Date Joined Mar 2005
Total Posts : 1224
| Posted 6/16/2005 11:13 PM (GMT -4) | | quote:
8. We're able to spend an hour on the computer and the family leaves us alone.
You lost me here. I mean, I understand all the words individually, but when you put them together...
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Rob Santa
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Date Joined Apr 2004
Total Posts : 1391
| Posted 6/17/2005 6:13 AM (GMT -4) | | Yeah, I thought that might be a bit of a stretch, too. That's why I do the majority of my writing after midnight.
Rob
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Supr
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Date Joined Apr 2005
Total Posts : 107
| Posted 6/17/2005 6:52 AM (GMT -4) | | quote:
Originally posted by Rob Santa
2. Members of the opposite sex think it's cool
I can only agree [8D] | | Back to Top | | |
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erazmus
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Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 4475
| Posted 7/18/2005 9:02 PM (GMT -4) | | I know number eight and two just aren't true![;)]
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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erazmus
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Date Joined Jul 2005
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| Posted 7/18/2005 9:14 PM (GMT -4) | | I stand corrected on number two.
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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Third Axe Publishing
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| Posted 7/26/2005 8:58 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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