From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 05/15/2014 04:19 PM, Brenda Clough wrote:   
      
   > I can do it -- shift voices between speakers. And vocabulary, and   
   > cadence, and slang, yes, it all ccan be done.   
      
   You really, really, really, *want* people to read your books, but based   
   solely on that, I'd avoid them.   
      
   > It helps if the speakers   
   > are quite different, however -- time traveling British men versus modern   
   > American women.   
      
   Oh look, an admission of areas within which mortality exists.   
      
   Sorry for giving you a bit of a hard time.    
      
   It occurs to me that novelists (and I don't know what venue you write   
   for) who are trying to make a living (or even acquire additional income)   
   through writing suffer a significant disadvantage.  It seems to me that   
   only now that I'm retired and my standard of living is as "assured" as   
   it is ever likely to become, would I be able to step aside from the   
   world we live in, and enter another world where a story takes place, if   
   I was capable of telling a story to save my ass, which I seem not to be.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)