[B5JMS] ATTN JMS: B5 Backbiting from actors wins no fans here

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From: Jere Lull <jerelull at mac.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Dec 2002 06:26:55 GMT
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Jms at B5 wrote:

>>All those in favour of JMS say "aye"
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>Then I vote nay.
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>And I'm not being facetious.
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>This shouldn't be about taking sides with one person over another.  The day
>people start agreeing with stuff just because it's me, is the day the
>conversation is over, because it's no longer a conversation at all.
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>I'm in favor of reasoned discourse, of asking impertinent questions in search
>of pertinent information, but doing so fairly, without resorting to straw-man
>arguments, pettifogging, paraphrasing, dead-catting or "are you now or have you
>ever been" high school debate tactics.
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>It's not about winning or losing an argument or taking sides.  
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> jms
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>(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
>(all message content (c) 2002 by synthetic worlds, ltd., 
>permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine 
>and don't send me story ideas)
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With respect to all sides and admiring your integrity to the point of 
tears (which are rare for me except in the B5 universe), I still vote 
"aye".

JMS, you quite adequately supported your then-position by referring to 
an *at the time* post that you had made.

That you have had an average of 4+ posts per day over 11 years that can 
be searched and critiqued is absolutely incredible. (I'm a 
well-above-average poster in other venues, and I posted less than a 
tenth of that number over 11 years. How the heck did you find time to 
post that mucn?)

-- 
Jere Lull
Xan-a-Deux ('73 Tanzer 28 #4 out of Tolchester, MD)
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From: jmsatb5 at aol.com (Jms at B5)
Date: 08 Dec 2002 00:37:27 GMT
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>That you have had an average of 4+ posts per day over 11 years that can 
>be searched and critiqued is absolutely incredible.

Also frightening and deeply disturbing.

>How the heck did you find time to 
>post that much?

I use the net as a break from writing.  When I hit a point where I need to
think about the next scene, rather than leave the desk and go watch TV, which
will kill an hour or more, I go online, which keeps me at the keyboard.  I
noodle a bit, during which my brain works out the story problem, and zing, I'm
back into the writing again.

I may be one of the few who uses writing as a break from writing....

See "deeply disturbed" above...
 jms

(jmsatb5 at aol.com)
(all message content (c) 2002 by synthetic worlds, ltd., 
permission to reprint specifically denied to SFX Magazine 
and don't send me story ideas)