From: julie@pascal.org   
      
   On Friday, May 30, 2014 5:14:26 AM UTC-6, mumble wrote:   
   > On 05/29/2014 08:02 AM, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > > On Thursday, May 29, 2014 6:36:57 AM UTC-4, mumble wrote:   
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   > >> On 05/28/2014 12:20 PM, William Vetter wrote:   
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   > >>> I don't know you, although I've written to you in posts a few times.    
   May I ask if you're a writer of some sort making a comment about technique, or   
   are you a fan from rasfw giving me a sort of review?   
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   > >> It doesn't matter who or what I am, what matters is how my words affect   
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   > > I understand.  You are here to psychologically impact others.  A lot of   
   people on internet do that.   
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   > Yes and no.  Everybody who writes does that to psychologically impact   
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   > others.  That does not mean they are trolls.   
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   > Everything written, including every novel, is written to psychologically   
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   > impact others, even if that impact is only to cause others to pass the   
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   > word that something is worth reading and thus create income for the   
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   > author.  Some authors intend the additional psychological impact that   
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   > comes when information is imparted; the reader learns something, or   
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   > grows in some way, or is otherwise affected even if the effect is only   
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   > enjoyment.  Authors write to affect readers, that's the nature of it.   
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   > Even a shopping list is written to affect the reader who has forgotten   
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   > what was written on the list.   
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   > However, I will take your response to mean that you prefer not to   
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   > receive any help that I might be able to give you, unless you say   
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   > otherwise.  A lot of people prefer to do things their own way simply   
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   > because it is their own way.   
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   > > If it were different, you'd just tell me what you are instead of talking   
   in riddles.   
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   > It doesn't matter what I am, male, female, space-alien, published   
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   > author, whatever; what matters is how you are psychologically impacted   
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   > by the words I write.  You react defensively, you don't want to risk   
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   > being helped, that's fine, end of story.   
      
      
   This all assumes you have any ability to "help" anyone.   
      
   -Julie   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)