From: nicky.matthews@btinternet.com   
      
   On Saturday, August 30, 2014 10:22:13 PM UTC+1, Kevin C wrote:   
   > On Saturday, August 30, 2014 1:32:52 PM UTC-4, Nicky wrote:   
   >    
   > > I don't know why you would think your skills have necessarily plateaued or   
   declined. It is very difficult to get conventionally published these days and   
   not succeeding at that isn't always a comment on the quality of your writing,   
   though obviously it    
   can be. Anyway a new idea may have success where a previous failed just   
   because some ideas are more fashionable or commercial than others.   
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   > People I trust looked at a few, and found errors I did not see. Not the   
   occasionally homophone error, or misplaces punctuation, but huge clinkers that   
   should have been obvious. Committing the same errors over and over again   
   indicates an inability to    
   learn.   
      
   You may be too hard on yourself. Writing isn't particularly easy and we all   
   repeat mistakes partly because it's hard to fix them until you really get why   
   they are mistakes and even then when you are involved in an idea it is hard to   
   self edit. Committing    
   the same errors over and over again is normal from my perspective.   
   >    
   > This is an issue of genre. If SF and F are the ghettos of fiction, then   
   *Christian* SF and F are crates in a back alley. However, my first point   
   applies to these as well.   
   >    
   I don't think I'd know Christian SF if it hit me over the head. Does it have   
   to be marketed that way? In what way does it differ from just SF?   
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   > On formatting manuscripts: It's not that much of a problem if you use   
   styles. After than to change the look all you have to do is change the style   
   formatting.   
      
   I'm clueless about stuff like that so it is a problem for me.   
      
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