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- From: djd@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (david.j.daulton)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Not revising - with a twist
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.053309.14920@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 05:33:09 GMT
- References: <1993Jan21.213705.6410@digi.lonestar.org> <mtan-220193093436@maureen.cen.uiuc.edu>
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- Regarding:
- >> As far as using Heinlein's rule, I wonder if anyone has ever tried it, with
- >> the added twist that when you finish a piece, if it is not worth submitting,
- >> then throw it away ...
- >>
- >> Any takers?
-
- And the reply:
- >
- >Oh, God! Throw away one of my children?!
- >
-
- This calls to mind another statement that (as I recall) came from Heinlein,
- that "Writing for the trunk is masturbation." So rather than one's children,
- one would be throwing away...well, being a polite person, at least in mixed
- company (and this certainly is a mixed company), I think I won't complete
- that thought.
-
- Dave Daulton, Columbus, Ohio
-