Re:A cold war bunker that became home to a dark-web empire
by dhosek on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:09PM
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It was seven years (and an MFA) between when I resumed writing fiction seriously in my late thirties until I had my first publication. Since then, I've managed to publish at least one short story a year. I've managed to crack the bottom of the top tier (or maybe the top of the middle tier) and gotten a personalized rejection from The New Yorker. I ignore those kids who write something as an undergrad that their English professor passes on to their agent and end up with their first publication in The Paris Review when they're 19. The key is to just keep going.
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Re:A cold war bunker that became home to a dark-web empire
by WarOnPrivacy on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:49PM
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All communication is tough for me. I have to manually assemble the sort of language skills that most folks take for granted. To achieve even basic communication, I have to collect and process huge amounts of social/human data.
For speaking, this means composing & practicing entire conversations until I've mastered enough variations that I can sound reasonably natural.
With text, I need rewrite my sentences numerous times, before I achieve basic readability between them.
However, when I can pull off mundane communication, getting out something that's excellent or interesting is normally ~0 steps further.