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    Do you have to be be bad at something to ever be good at it? I got the first part taken care of.

    I am working on one now. It is supposed to be a real life horror, Going for "This gives me the creeps, I'm looking under the bed even though I know nothing is there." I am not sure I have enough of the female perspective in the story or if I have made the reader fall in love with the main...
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    Do you have to be be bad at something to ever be good at it? I got the first part taken care of.

    Your name also popped up as one of the old familiar faces from the past :}
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    Do you have to be be bad at something to ever be good at it? I got the first part taken care of.

    Being published is less about skill than understanding the market. Just about every local newspaper is looking for content. People who have the writing skills and interest in the community seem to be in short supply. The trick is to pick a interest that does not draw those with writing skills ...
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    What made me happy today?

    I did not go to work today because of the cold. The first time ever in almost 50 years. It was below zero here today with the windchill at 31 below zero. I claim to be semi retired, which is really a lie. I am down to 60 hours a week which I tell my wife makes me semi retired. I enjoy what I do...
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    Hi! Where's everyone from?

    Welcome Ratsky. I had to look up existential horror sci fi, I guess I would have to see some examples to really grasp it. I have written horror, both with a humor involved, and about the kind that leave teeth marks. I am from up-state New York in a county with more cows than people.
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    Do you have to be be bad at something to ever be good at it? I got the first part taken care of.

    I have been here before, or maybe it's deja Vu Almost 20 years ago I joined my first forum, then in 2017 joined the first version of this one. I started out only with a desire to be able to write as well as I speak, I have always loved public speaking and storytelling but had poor writing...
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