SFX has a dig. Again...

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From: Paul Harper <paul at harper.net>
Date: 3 Jul 2000 12:46:57 -0600
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On 3 Jul 2000 03:44:17 -0600, Tom Holt <lemming.co at zetnet.co.uk>
wrote:

>Put another way; when you write your first novel/screenplay/epic 
>poem/whatever, there's a vast reservoir of observations, feelings and 
>things you've simply got to say, pressing against your nerve-endings 
>like an abcess.

Thanks Tom.

Is there any "sadness" (probably a bad word, but can't think of a
better one at the mo. - "regret" maybe?) about subsequent efforts not
being as meaningful as the first, or does it really get reduced to
just jobbing work?

Paul.

-- 
A .sig is all well and good, but it's no substitute for a personality

"                       . . . SFX is a fairly useless publication on just
about every imaginable front.  Never have so many jumped-up fanboys done so
little, with so much, for so long."    JMS.


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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 3 Jul 2000 18:02:13 -0600
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>Is there any "sadness" (probably a bad word, but can't think of a
>better one at the mo. - "regret" maybe?) about subsequent efforts not
>being as meaningful as the first, or does it really get reduced to
>just jobbing work?
>

Don't take one person's impressions -- especially one speaking as a non-writer
-- as necessarily accurate.  If every new thing I wrote wasn't as meaningful to
me as the last thing, or the first thing that I wrote, I'd get out of the
business.

Because at that point you've got no business being IN the business.  

 jms

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