SanFranciscoJim
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A Woman Without Her Man Is Nothing.
by Englishman ina woman: without her, man is nothing.
that's it folks, i'm paying more attention to my punctuation in future!.
englishman.
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Lane Convention, committed suicide because he was gay!
by cyberguy inlane convention, the son of the society?s premiere attorney, committed suicide, because he was gay!
or at least was envoled in gay sex and drugs for many years!.
well, lane was a very good friend of mine.
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SanFranciscoJim
I know it is unpopular and I appreciate the struggle people have in this life, but the ideal I have is the Bible's view of sexuality.
el Blanko, as long as people remain misinformed about the Bible's supposed view on homosexuality, the Bible will continue to be used as a weapon by religion to bash gay people across the head. As long as we gay people are continually pummeled with damnation, the end result will be more despair, alcohol and drug abuse, and suicide.
I have studied the Bible in their original Hebrew and Greek for over two decades and have concluded that the so-called condemnations of homosexuality are mistranslations. Please look at an essay I wrote on the subject: http://www.gayxjw.org/bible.html
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What do you say when the Mormons come by?
by MegaDude injust got through having a conversation with two mormons going door to door on this cold saturday here in fort worth, texas.
damn, they remind me so much of jehovah's witnesses it isn't even funny: the same zeal, the same conviction, the same confidence.
as a matter of fact, they seemed a lot more of all these things.
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SanFranciscoJim
I simply tell them I am a gay ex-Jehovah's Witness. Their usual --> <-- expression suddenly turns into something more like this --> <-- and they very quickly leave!
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Lane Convention, committed suicide because he was gay!
by cyberguy inlane convention, the son of the society?s premiere attorney, committed suicide, because he was gay!
or at least was envoled in gay sex and drugs for many years!.
well, lane was a very good friend of mine.
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SanFranciscoJim
I am very saddened by this report, but not the least bit surprised.
When "A Common Bond" (http://www.gayxjw.org/) the support network for gay & lesbian exJWs, held our first international conference in Washington DC in 1999, one of the speakers asked for a show of hands from the audience how many people knew or knew of at least one JW who had committed suicide. Literally every hand in the room raised. When the speaker then went on to ask how many in the room had attempted suicide themselves, close to half the attendees raised their hands again. I was one of them.
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Nigeriam Scammers Busted
by Country Girl inpolice arrest 52 in email scam raids
thu jan 29,11:16 am et
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SanFranciscoJim
I think I must have got at least half of those 100,000 emails.
I think I'm writing to the other half of those 100,000 emails, driving those Nigerians nuts!
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I Am a Published Novelist !!
by SanFranciscoJim inas many of you know, last year i wrote a science fiction novel.
this past weekend, the fulfillment of a dream i've had for many years came to be a reality.
my novel has been released!
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SanFranciscoJim
How did you locate the publisher? Did they charge a fee to edit your book?
I located the publisher through a fellow exJW author who writes metaphysical novels.
You better believe they charged me for the edit! It cost a small fortune, in fact, since they charge by the word. I had the option of using an outside editor, but decided to stay in-house. Next book, I will probably do the edit myself, because the way they tried to re-edit the book made it lose a lot of the flavor I was trying to project. Their editor apparently didn't like the fact that I know how to use "big words". The editor did catch a few glaring errors of syntax and repetition, but I re-inserted much of the original text. It is, after all, my book, and I wanted it to reflect my writing style. Had I accepted the publisher's edit 100%, the book would have read like an oversimplified collaborative work and not recognizable as anything I would be proud to have my name on.
I was fortunate that the publisher accepted my re-edit without further changes.
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I Am a Published Novelist !!
by SanFranciscoJim inas many of you know, last year i wrote a science fiction novel.
this past weekend, the fulfillment of a dream i've had for many years came to be a reality.
my novel has been released!
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Jim: I note (if I read correctly) that you do NOT have an agent. Can you share with this writer why you chose to go it alone? Did you try to find an agent and fail and decide to move directly to an editor and book publisher? Do you recommend that path? Just looking for insights...
willyloman,
Since this is my first novel, I decided that finding an agent at this time would not be prudent because I wanted to establish myself as a bona-fide member of the published literary community first. In corresponding with other published writers, I was told that most agents are hesitant to take on a client who has never had their work published before. Although I have been published extensively in trade journals, magazines, and on the internet, this is my first attempt at writing a full-length novel, and my first attempt at writing fiction. I want to see where this book takes me before soliciting an agent for my future works.
My publisher assigned an editor to edit my novel after the initial manuscript was submitted. I did not care for much of their edit, so I re-edited their edit, and they accepted it.
As to recommending this path, I don't know what to say. This is all new to me, and as I gain more experience in the literary field, I believe I'll be able to offer suggestions with greater confidence at that time.
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I Am a Published Novelist !!
by SanFranciscoJim inas many of you know, last year i wrote a science fiction novel.
this past weekend, the fulfillment of a dream i've had for many years came to be a reality.
my novel has been released!
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SanFranciscoJim
Hi Jim,
Here's a handy tip which I personally found useful: try reading out your work to yourself (preferably in private!). I do this a lot, and although my roommates think I've gone a bit spare, it's a great way to find repetitions and odd-sounding sentences that you wouldn't notice if you were reading through the work normally.
Right now I'm busy toying with an idea I had recently for a text editor that will allow you to edit text normally, but each paragraph will be coloured in a range of colours from white to gray to black. The lighter the text, the more times it has been edited. I know some paragraphs need a lot of touch-ups after you write them, and this way if you add something new you could see it straight-away, as it would stand out dramatically from the rest of the already-edited text. And as you edit a paragraph, it will very slowly fade out and become whiter, eventually being almost illegable.
What do you writers on the board think of this idea? Depending on how much of something like Word's functionality I put into it, a tool like this could be quite easy to write...provided I only support plain-text, or possibly Rich Text.
Hi Syn,
That text editor sounds like a very interesting (and helpful) idea.
As regards reading my writing aloud while in work, well.....I am already accused of spending too much time in front of the computer talking to myself.
Actually, I have a brother who is also a writer (as yet unpublished, but working on it). We've been sending manuscripts back and forth for critiquing while in work, and that has proven to be a very effective means of catching myself on repetition and syntax. My brother is my worst critic.
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I Am a Published Novelist !!
by SanFranciscoJim inas many of you know, last year i wrote a science fiction novel.
this past weekend, the fulfillment of a dream i've had for many years came to be a reality.
my novel has been released!
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SanFranciscoJim
Congratulations! I am pretty dang sure I saw a copy on a new release rack in the airport (SF)???? Am I hallucinating???
I honestly don't know! The book was just released over the weekend, so the chances of it already being on the shelves at any bookstore seem pretty slim. However, since it is already listed in the Ingram catalog that bookstores order from, it is a possibility. It would be great if it is up there with the new releases already!
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I Am a Published Novelist !!
by SanFranciscoJim inas many of you know, last year i wrote a science fiction novel.
this past weekend, the fulfillment of a dream i've had for many years came to be a reality.
my novel has been released!
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SanFranciscoJim
jgnat wrote:
I hear that promotion is nearly as much work as writing, so I am thrilled to hear you are working to give your book exposure.
Writing the actual book was the easy part, believe it or not. For anyone out there thinking of writing "the great American novel", let me tell you, it's a lot more work than just typing your thoughts onto a page and submitting it to the publisher.
After the book is written, then comes the edit. You can pay a professional editor to edit the book, or you can do it yourself. In either case, the editing takes much longer than the actual writing. In my case, it took four times as long.
And, you're right -- the promotion is an energy-drainer, too. Publishers often don't do a whole lot of promotion themselves. That is left up to the author, or the author's agent. Since I don't have an agent, I have to do it myself. This is why word of mouth is so important to me and the success of my book. Although I have a wide circle of correspondents myself, one never knows who they know, and word of my book could end up in the hands of the "right" person who will publicize it in ways I can't begin to think of.
The most important thing for me is, even though there's a lot of work involved..... I enjoy it !