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   Kevin C to William Vetter   
   Re: Writers' return?   
   13 Sep 14 05:59:59   
   
   From: kevin_c75@yahoo.com   
      
   On Wednesday, September 10, 2014 3:42:29 PM UTC-4, William Vetter wrote:   
   > The reason I said "how many published" was that Kevin seemed to believe that   
   this was preventing him from getting his ms. accepted.  I've looked over the   
   complete and incomplete mss. on my hard drive (and they weren't published) and   
   I think about 30 to    
   40% somehow suggest science-fictional in the first sentence, though I have a   
   novel where the POV character is an alien that doesn't.   
      
   I think it's an inability to learn to blame for lack of publication. Setting   
   the scene issue was just one fault of many.   
      
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