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Thank you for replying, Melissa, with:
"The group shrank and eventually disappeared entirely. The writer-who-was-telling-me-about-this said that this was the point at which he became an alcoholic, since he was conditioned to go out drinking once a week, and without the guys around he did a lot more drinking and less talking and eating."

If only they had been hanging out in coffee shops instead!

I would be very interested to know if others had similar stories. In my frame of vision, many of the most vocal writers are "writers".

As Mris wrote:
"As for being seen as a writer vs. being one, I've accidentally gotten a good half dozen friends to stop referring to themselves as aspiring writers, because I actually wanted to talk about what I was writing, where I was sending it, etc., and they just wanted to talk about how awesome their novel was going to be once they wrote something other than the dramatis personae."

I've had trouble finding writers in the outside world who actually DO write. I am fortunate enough to have found one, and we have weekly "Guess who just rejected me!" sessions. Not to sound whiney (one close writer friend/$150K advance?), but I really would LOVE to find three or four more.

Hrm, yeah, that's whining. Sorry about that.

Hey, _I_ was at Elliot Bay last weekend, too. And, come to think of it, I couldn't find it either!

It's a very small world, which is strange, because it SHOULD seem too large, seeing as there's a book sized empty space in it. The world that is. Not the strange. A book sized whole in the strange would be, well, strange.

At least now I know I will have new reading soon... soon... soon...

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