Bo Lindbergh

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• whitroth commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  Ycmts were *so* wrong. Trump's been in *six* bankruptcies, not four. He went to Deutschbank because no one ine US would lend to him... and that was in, what, 2015? 2016? His cowardice... he thinks he's God-Emperor of the world, and with the exception of someone who actually has his nuts in a vice, such as Putin, or several different mafias, he thinks he can do anything. That's why he's so po'd at the news media, and Congress: how *dare* they question me, or go against my wishes?!"...
• whitroth commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  Nope, sorry, screw the Shrub. The Project for the New American Century, a truly *evil* collection of villians, among their founding documents was a letter to Clinton in '98, urging him to invade Iraq, oil, y'know. Among the signatories on the original letter were...Cheney, Wolfowitz, and Rummy. Remember, Cheney was in the oil industry....
• whitroth commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  I think I object to Gorgon Slayers. I mean, they were there, innocently, on their own island, or temple, minding their own business, and he comes charging in to kill.......
• whitroth commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  Ghu, Purple be His Name, please don't. Or I mind have to post a link to the text of Eye of Argon, with the barbarian's search for, I think it's the blood-red emerald.......
• whitroth commented on Lessons learned: writing really long fiction
  For the novel, I think I'm hitting 11 and/or 13. Come to think of it, I may be hitting that on my short fiction, too, along with "we have too many others, and the dart didn't hit yours". More directly related to your post, and missing from the Slushkiller list, are "in our guidelines, we said, explicitly, that 6000 or 10000 words was a hard limit, please do not send us something that's 13k words long." Or "Sorry, we're not interested im flash fiction." And "we want near-future sf, not high fantasy". Which, of course, is why I was/am worried...