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Originally Posted by Moejoe
I can't not act on principle, it's impossible for me (as I suspect it would be for you too)  Never fear I still want to do Atlas Hugged and The Wish of Music before the end of this year, which should be a hell of a lot of fun for everyone . And I still have The Song of Insects / Mortgage of Ghosts / The Murder of Shadows to come as novels, plus about two hundred other shorts. |
you know we'll all hold you to that. and you don't have to act on a principle which doesn't exist, that's all i'm saying.
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When I do stop I'll have written a fair bit of fiction, so I can be happy with that. But life must move on, there must be times when you make a decision and stick by it.
I've made the decision to stop and must stick by that decision. I'm not sure I can sum up how I feel at the moment over all this, only, maybe the Marx Brothers quote comes close:
I wouldn't want to be part of any kind of club that would have someone like me as a member
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so be the romantic loner.
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even that isn't really what I'm thinking. Up until this point in my life I always imagined my future sat in front of keyboard writing stories, but that's a future I just don't see any more. I think it will be the same for a lot of writers, published and unpublished as we transition over to digital. Self-culling I think it's called
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except usually the culling is supposed to remove the *weakest* elements...
but, i won't argue (much more) about it, i don't want to drive you crazy.
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Originally Posted by Moe The Cat
(Psst! Guys! We've got six months to show Moejoe how much we appreciate his stories and maybe change his mind!)
What? Me? No, I didn't say anything ...
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excellent plan. i'm in.
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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Here is a macrami owl (I'll make this first). Now isn't this much better than stories? |
so what's up with that owl ? it looks startled, or perhaps high. what has happened to it to make it look that way ? did it have one too many zcds at one of marc's parties ? or something completely different ?
(psst, everybody, just act casually, maybe we can tempt him back... 
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