From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Monday, May 26, 2014 8:57:22 AM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
   > In article <44214ea7-ce95-4c07-b7c4-e7623a33ec6e@googlegroups.com>,   
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   > J.Pascal  wrote:   
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   > >On Sunday, May 25, 2014 8:28:24 PM UTC-6, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:   
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   > >> In article ,   
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   > >> J.Pascal  wrote:   
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   > >> >Hey! Jo Walton is going to be in my city in four weeks to do a signing.   
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   > >> >Very cool!   
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   > >> Indeed.  What is your city?   
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   > >I'm in Albuquerque now.   
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   > >> >  I'm gonna go meet someone from rasfc in person.  I don't   
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   > >> >know if I've ever actually done that before.  Ever.   
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   > >> Well ... you've met me.   
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   > >ACK!  Yes, yes I have!  And I got you to sign the books I have, too.   
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   > >And actually, I learned something really important from you, which was   
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   > >to not resist input on a critique, even though you were the published   
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   > >novelist and we were wanna-bes.   
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   > Heh.  I also learned to take the input and consider it carefully   
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   > as to whether to use it or not.   
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   Probably a good thing, too, if I remember right.   
      
   -Julie   
      
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