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• JohnS commented on Infomercial Interlude
  PrivateIron @ 199: TLDR: both sides were shit on most issues involving racism most of the time. In practice, neither the Mansfield decision nor the Declaration of Independence were the Holy Grails they are cracked up to be. I think "Holy Grail" may be a good description for the Declaration of Independence (and for the Constitution) ... in the Arthurian sense; something pure & noble but out of reach that we strive to obtain. The knights of the round table never found the Holy Grail, but they continued to look for it. Our "founding fathers" did not achieve a society...
• Greg Tingey commented on Infomercial Interlude
  JBS Bollocks, actually youTube on the Slave Trade patrols Oh & slavery was already in "The Americas" through Spain, I'm afraid, well before then. @ 206 Actually, most gave up the search long since - about the time Nixon became Pres....
• whitroth commented on Infomercial Interlude
  [shakes head] I think we should drop this conversation. I tell you I know this stuff, and you try to point me to stuff I already know. For example, "MY PRECIOUS WORDS!!!" All the editors I've dealt with, including Eric Flint, who did buy my currently-only first story I sold, knew from conversations with me that I was perfectly willing to make changes as needed, if it didn't destroy the story... and I don't know any editors who a) would ask me to destroy the story, and b) wanted me to write their story, rather than mine. Btw, if you...
• allynh commented on Infomercial Interlude
  Mark, No matter how often I do something, I don't know what I know until I teach it, so thanks for letting me kibitz. I always learn far more when I teach. Look at the article on editing War of the Worlds again. The insight is so strong that I now see how I can teach what I do using the book. I can't show how I complete one of my novels, because I don't have the final form until it is fully uncompressed. But I can take War of the Worlds, which has a clear story arc, and show...
• Scott Sanford commented on Infomercial Interlude
  I also stumbled on one of Heinlein's books that they found the "first draft" of and assembled it from original notes. I'm glad I didn't read about a 'new' Heinlein novel yesterday, on April 1st. From the reviews it sounds like what it says on the tin: a first draft bashed together into a novel, after the original author rethought his plot and decided to do something else. Now that I know it exists I'm sure I will read it eventually....