From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 6/13/14 7:11 AM, mumble wrote:   
   > On 06/12/2014 04:53 PM, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) wrote:   
   >> On 6/12/14 4:27 PM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   >>> On 12/06/2014 11:19, mumble wrote:   
   >>>> On 06/11/2014 09:24 AM, Jacey Bedford wrote:   
   >>>>> On 11/06/2014 09:32, mumble wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 06/09/2014 10:17 PM, Bill Swears wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On 6/3/2014 5:47 PM, Carl Dershem wrote:   
   >>>>>>>> For a current WIP:   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> You are given one wish (with the usual caveats - no wishing for   
   >>>>>>>> more   
   >>>>>>>> wishes, no breaking the wall between life and death, no interfering   
   >>>>>>>> with   
   >>>>>>>> someone else's Free Will).  What do you wish for?   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> cd   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> A three book contract.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Contracts are muse-death.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Yes, dear, of course they are.   
   >>>>> :-)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Yes honeybunch, they certainly are; compare having a contract which   
   >>>> obligates you to grind out the words,   
   >>   
   >>      Here you show no actual knowledge of how this works.   
   >   
   > Oh, my.  What I say in response is that if you are only allowed by your   
   > family circumstances to write when you are making money from it,   
      
   `	No. I'm able to write MORE when I get paid for it.   
      
   > you   
   > demonstrate a lack of understanding of how the real world works, you   
   > remain captive to the idea that you must have an employer in order to   
   > make money by doing what you have been told, even if you generated the   
   > telling yourself.   
      
      
   	No. The employer is doing all sorts of work that I do not ever, ever   
   want to do. I get paid to do X. If I was doing X by myself, I'd also   
   have to do A, B, C, D, and E, none of which I want to do.   
      
      
   > If you want to make money you have to invest your time in something you   
   > believe in sufficiently to gamble on its success.   
      
   	If your personality goes that way, great. Mine doesn't.   
      
      
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