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Re: conlangs in fiction (was: Re: Conlangs in History)

From:H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...>
Date:Monday, August 21, 2000, 17:50
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:09:00PM -0400, Dennis Paul Himes wrote:
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> That's good to know. However, I made a decision a while ago that for > the time being I would be writing for my webpage and not for sale. Although
Cool, I kinda have the same attitude towards many things, like music composition. (I'd like to say writing, but my writing skills aren't good enough to produce things worthy of general consumption :-)
> a work on my webpage will have a smaller readership than a published work, > it will have a larger readership than a rejected work, and I have complete > control over it. I also like being able to tell people who express an
[snip] Yep, yep, I hate being forced to compose/write/whatever just because I won't have food on my table otherwise. Especially if I have to "lower" my standards to satisfy the crowd (or worse, the publisher who may not always have the same interests as the intended audience). I rather settle for a career I can do moderately well, and do stuff like writing/composing/etc on the side and put it up on the Net for whoever sees value in it. T