From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Tuesday, May 27, 2014 8:25:07 AM UTC-6, William Vetter wrote:   
   > On Monday, May 26, 2014 3:10:59 PM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:   
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   > > > > And actually, I learned something really important from you, which was   
   to not resist input on a critique, even though you were the published novelist   
   and we were wanna-bes.   
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   > I think that I've been unpublished longer than you've been unpublished.   
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   > So I can advise you not to regard yourself as "wannabe."  I don't think that   
   it's a mindset that will sustain you.   
      
   Well, that's true, I think.   
      
   This was 15 years ago, though, and at the time I don't think anyone in our   
   crit group had been published at all.  I know for certain that at least half   
   of the group got at least short stories published since then.  I moved and   
   lost touch.   
      
   -Julie   
      
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