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Maxxx wrote: Yeah - well to be honest it took as long to write the story as it did to create my firstborn...
I can only hope that both were properly developed at delivery. 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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That all depends, are you the mother or the father?
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Well he's a boy, so obviously I"m the father!
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Congratulations!!! 
It's incredible to see the strange mix of people wanders here in ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) 's house.
Now we have a story (and novels) writer too! 
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We already had - @Mark-Wallace wrote at least a novel, I don't know if it's been published yet but I definetely read it 
Here's the proof[^]
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
modified 29-Aug-17 8:25am.
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So we have two of them...
2 in 13104959 members...
we are covered... Sorry guys the next one that wants to write something must embark in another forum/family... 
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Joan M wrote: in another forum
That'll be me. There's this website... 
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I should have been here to volunteer  . I love LOTR, and a friend of mine is writing something similar for which I am a volunteer proof reader.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Congratulations!
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Congrats. I do a bit of sci-fi writing (and other writing) myself so I know how tough it can be to get your stuff in front of an audience.
Can we read your story somewhere? Are any of your other stories available elsewhere?
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Thanks.
You won't be able to read this one until publication next year - and as it is the first, there's no others available to read.
I do have one reject that I may post somewhere online in which case I will obviously let everyone here know!
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Maxxx wrote: So I wrote a short story
Awesome! So when is the CP article coming out discussing the architecture decisions, workflows and third party integration? 
Marc
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I was thinking more of an article discussing punctuation (with special consideration of alignment of braces), layout and the use of the word 'this'!
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_Maxxx_ wrote: So I wrote a short story, sent it off and it's been accepted for publication in a SF mag - and will be broadcast on radio and podcast.
I'm not actually getting paid - but I'm still pretty excited, and was passing by so thought I'd share!
Congrats! Where have you been hiding?
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Hi MM - well, you know how it is! Got kicked out of one job, moved out of the .Net space into Angular 2, NodeJs and all that sort of stuff - so CP became less relevant & I had less time.
Now I"m back into using .Net back end a little, & popped by to look up some facts ..maybe I'll stay a while!
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Congrats! I'm working on a novel and have a pile of short stories as well so I know how difficult and nerve wracking it can be. I do it in my downtime so I stay creative and help relax. My older brother just published his first book as well.
What sort of short story was it?
Maxxx wrote: Subject: I Sold my first story...
Maxxx wrote: not actually getting paid
This is a new definition of selling that I'm not familiar with.
Finally OT: I've never seen the Praise reply type before. But I like it! Have a five!
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It's a very short Sci-Fi story. (< 1000 words)
I don't want to say anything about it until it's published as I don't want to give any spoilers!
I just write when the fancy takes me - in this case I thought of the opening line to a novel about 12 years ago (maybe even longer) - one evening I thought about just writing that first page - which is what I did!
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Maxxx wrote: one evening I thought about just writing that first page - which is what I did!
Whatever works is best. I know that I have days where I don't want to write but I sit down and just do it. Sometimes that produces crap and I toss it on the shelf but other times after 10 or 15 minutes I really start clicking.
Regardless, congrats on soon being published!
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Awesomeness!
/ravi
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So you didn't actually sell the story - you gave it away! Congratulations!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Yeah, well, if you want to be pedantic!
It's for my fans
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Sounds like West coast pugilist sect, discordant to Americans. (13)
edit: CALLITHUMPIAN. I think the solution is pretty straightforward. Intriguing to find a word with three distinct meanings in different cultures (UK, US, Aus). See here[^]
Back tomorrow, I guess.
Peter
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
modified 29-Aug-17 7:26am.
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Rule #1: We never talk about it?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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ummm. Not sure how to respond to that. Could be construed as being in the right direction. Or not.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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