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   Message 460 of 679   
   Rosco to Ivor Longhorn   
   Re: Does Your Writing Workshop Suck Shit   
   13 Nov 05 13:09:01   
   
   XPost: misc.writing, misc.education, alt.journalism   
   From: ckrosco@yahoo.com   
      
   Ivor Longhorn wrote:   
     >> Content knowledge without writing ability won't get you far as an   
   editor   
   >> or writer.   
   >   
   > Bullshit. "Why I lied my way into the war on Iraq" would be a   
   > bestseller if Mr Bush ever "wrote" it.   
      
   Sure, but he wouldn't write it...   
      
   If you mean that famous people can write books that sell - sure, no   
   doubt about it.  What about the workaday writer like the technical   
   writer in the original post?  Without writing ability he won't last long.   
      
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