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   Dorothy J Heydt to Capuchin@jymes.com   
   Re: Anyone still here?   
   08 Sep 21 19:43:34   
   
   From: djheydt@kithrup.com   
      
   In article ,   
     wrote:   
   >On Tue, 7 Sep 2021 13:49:00 +0200, "A. Tina Hall"   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>On 07.09.21, Capuchin@jymes.com   wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I occasionally post snippets of older stuff on Reddit, hoping a   
   >>> comment or two might spark me into working on it more. Sadly, so far,   
   >>> nothing has struck a chord.   
   >>   
   >>Oh, Reddit. I don't hang out there. A Steam friend mentioned it's an odd   
   >>place. He asks a question for a build in Terraria, and gets a ton of   
   >>upvotes, but no reply, or something weird like that.   
   >   
   >Reddit has something like fifty different subreddits for writing,   
   >divided by genre, focus, etc., and they're all different.   
      
   Peter Trei recommended Reddit to me; I took a look at its home   
   page and bounced off its complexity.  It was rather like stepping   
   into IKEA for the first time; the mind was overwhelmed by the   
   overwhelming data.   
   >   
      
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   Dorothy J. Heydt   
   Vallejo, California   
   djheydt at gmail dot com   
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