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Twenty-Five Things About Being a Writer
Posted by Richard Dansky
April 26, 2009

With apologies to Facebook and the memeage therein:

1-The world is under no obligation to tell you how great your writing is. In fact, it’s pretty much guaranteed that at least one person on there is going to hate it with the sort of hatred that inspires open-mouth frothing, Hulk-like spasms, and negative amazon.com reviews which may or may not be written in complete sentences. This is because we as a species are primates, and the only thing we can all actually agree on is the fact that oxygen is useful. If the thought of even one person not adoring your stuff makes you upset, then you need to consider another vocation. Either that, or never show your work to more than six people, all of whom owe you large sums of money.

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Tuesday Shorts has accepted my 83-word story “It Just Doesn’t Pay” for publication in an upcoming humor issue.  This is my shortest to-be-published story yet.

As some of you know, I am not an admirer of Windows or MS’ practices.

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