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- From: ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright)
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- Subject: Re: Not revising - with a twist
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 22:34:35 GMT
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- In <1k268lINN1ln@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> mgcbo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Charles B. Owen) writes:
-
- >Fire and Brimstone on you. No, seriously, I just recently completed the
- >combination of rereading Heinlein's _Friday_ and Ansen Dibell's _Plot_.
- >There is not doubt in my mind that, if that novel been send over the
- >transom to a publisher with no name on it that it would have been
- >rejected. (And you thought you would get flames!) This and most books
- >I have on writing fiction point out numerous problems in this novel that
- >should have been fixed.
-
- Which, I guess, is why you see so many Ansen Dibell novels on the
- bestseller rack. :-)
-
-
- >I guess what I am saying, Maureen/Jane, is that I agree with you that Mr.
- >Heinlein may not be the best example/expert in fiction writing. The
- >knowledge to do something is not always equivalent to the ability to
- >teach.
-
- Those who can, do...
-