From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   C. E. Gee wrote:   
   > On Thursday, September 10, 2015 at 3:13:51 AM UTC-7, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)   
   > wrote:   
   >> 	One of the most pernicious - and ultimately damaging - myths that   
   >> newbie or would-be authors often buy into (and I do not exclude myself   
   >> from this!) is that "my ideas are valuable!" Specifically, they think   
   >> their ideas are so valuable that they must HIDE those ideas to keep   
   >> other authors or publishers from stealing them.   
   >>> 	   
   > I agree completely, but would like to add a point.   
   >   
   > Though I don't believe in the supernatural, it's sort of a cliche or   
   > something that it's  BAD LUCK to tell the details of a work of fiction before   
   > it's published.   
   >   
   I wouldn't do it, even when it probably wouldn't matter.  Some of the   
   same sort of people who tried to bully me into confiding in them when I   
   was a scientist are involved in writing science fiction.  Most of them   
   can write faster than me, some of them know editors who want their name   
   on the cover even if the manuscript is routine.   
      
   > I've noted that many "writers" who yak about what they're working on are   
   > often unpublished or self-published.   
   >   
   Their hunger for attention overpowers their fear.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)