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aka Bel - A87832164 Started conversation Sep 27, 2010
Maybe we should post the link in the AWW thread? 
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Sep 27, 2010
I hope a few more people will have some thoughts on the articles in this issue. 
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Dmitri Gheorgheni, Post Editor Posted Sep 27, 2010
Me, too. 
I am expecting somebody (probably lil) to send me a whole bunch of tomato smileys. 
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minorvogonpoet Posted Sep 28, 2010
Good for Bel if her motivation for writing is to give us the pleasure of reading!
I suspect that some writers write for the sake of showing off how clever they are. So they write using all sorts of high-faluting words and complicated ideas. And the rest of decide that literature gives us a 
and go and do something else.
But surely communication is at the heart of writing. We should be writing things that inform, amuse, entertain. Shouldn't we?
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aka Bel - A87832164 Posted Sep 28, 2010
I think that would be ideal. I have no problem to read something that is only informative, or something that amuses or entertains without being necessarily informative. A lot of fiction does the latter.
But if something is too 'dry', then it is not for me. Only if I have to. 
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