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Marian L Thorpe's avatar

Writing scientific papers back in the years of my life I spent as a research scientist made me a better overall writer - it taught me to be both concise and clear, which applies itself very nicely to fiction, too. But I prefer writing novels.

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Larry Hogue's avatar

This was an essay which made me smile. (Okay, particularly egregious example, but it’s early over here.)

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Mark Hannam's avatar

I deserved that, especially after the pain I've caused several people with the appalling intentional* grammatical error in the essay. (* Honestly, it was intentional. Does that make it better, or worse?)

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Larry Hogue's avatar

It still had less mistakes than other posts I’ve read. 😜

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Mark Hannam's avatar

The horror! The horror!

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Steven Dettwyler's avatar

Real life does intrude.

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Nathan Slake's avatar

Tremendous read, Mark. Smiled through all of this. Thanks for the restack and tag to make me aware of this. Now, I'm off to subject myself to my own which-hunt!

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Mark Hannam's avatar

Thanks Nathan, that means a lot coming from such an exceptional writer! I'm still to find the right moment to settle down with the conclusion of your story in the Spanish town, but it's a wonderful feeling to know that it's waiting in my future.

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Nathan Slake's avatar

Too kind, Mark, thank you, but I defer to your far exceptional writing here!

No hurry to settle down with The Botanist. Part 2 is there, but there is more to come that has yet to be written!

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