From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Sunday, August 17, 2014 11:08:26 PM UTC+1, J.Pascal wrote:   
   > On Sunday, August 17, 2014 3:28:58 PM UTC-6, Nicky wrote:   
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   > > I just met up with a lot of old friends who used to frequent this space.   
   It is some years since I was a regular but I am enormously grateful for the   
   many conversations here which gave me a language to discuss writing and helped   
   me to teach it at a    
   couple of UK unis.    
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   > >  So I wanted to ask what are people working on and where are they?   
   Published? Self published? Seeking representation or just writing for pleasure?   
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   > Hi Nicky,   
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   > I've gone back to university (for Geology and Technical Writing) so there's   
   not much story writing that happens during the school year.  I am writing more   
   than I used to, though.  I've got a couple of WIP, but what I'm doing mostly   
   is editing and    
   rewriting some of my older short stories and fixing them up with cover art and   
   typesetting it all with InDesign.  My goal with that is to use them as demo   
   booklets for copyediting and book design.   
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   > I do seem to have passed some sort of writing threshold. Before when I   
   looked at written stories they seemed sort of set in stone.  Now I look at   
   them and I can see why they aren't good and what they need to actually work.    
   At least I think so!  And I    
   don't think it's just a matter of time passing for the older stories because   
   my new writing is the same.    
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   > I don't have anything ready to self-publish, but that's my goal at this   
   point.   
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   Is that because of the control, or because you are less interested in   
   submitting to mags/publishers/agents? I am impressed you can do anything at   
   all while studying. My brain isn't big enough to multi task and seems to be   
   getting smaller by the day!   
   Nicky   
      
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