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To: dylan murphy who wrote (2025)	10/16/2009 3:26:44 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (3) of 9624

That is a very interesting question. I have no experience to draw from but I do have an opinion. 1. The publishing world is notoriously savage. It looks upon writers as if they were bones littering the landscape, to be picked up and used for fertilizer for their profit. If it doesn't see a profit, it don't pick it up. 2. Desire to write does not equal talent. 3. Your advice is good. 4. Your advice should have included an editor to be fully complete. 5. Luck, good or bad, makes a difference. 6. Timing makes a difference. 7. Nothing in this makes a difference: "she was 41, had two college degrees, had held some great jobs, and loved to read. By some accounts her IQ was off the charts. Many encouraged her to try this. Where did she go wrong? Was she too old? Did she start too late in life? Neither degree was in journalism and she had never sold anything to a newspaper, or a short story to a magazine." Bear in mind my complete lack of experience in the matter. I am more like your friend's wife than you might imagine. I am hoping to find out myself if effort translates to success.

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