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Date Posted: 12:30:40 10/26/07 Fri
Author: michael
Subject: Re: College
In reply to: BrianD 's message, "Re: College" on 16:31:26 10/25/07 Thu

>
>>I thought you might cast some doubts about the
>>feasibility
>
>What feasibility are we talking about here? Length?
>How long does it have to be to be called a novel?
>Publication/ will anyone like it? Does this matter? I
>don't see any reason why one can't write a novel if
>they so choose, irregardless of how
>awful/short/pointless it turns out to be. If you've no
>standard to live up to, then there's no reason why you
>couldn't write one.
>Then again the novel Dibs was probably referring to
>would probably take too much time, be far too
>stressing, and generally not worth it. I don't think
>that demeans the former kind of novel, though.

Im thinking more in terms of how a teacher feels at the end of every day, week, term, year. The idea that there is anything left to give to some other enterprise is somehow way off the mark.

Having said that, I did work in a school were one of the teachers was (as he often told people) a 'published author'. He even had the cheek to hog the one and only computer in the staffroom (this was several years ago) to work on his next novel, until objections were lodged. He was, however, a SENIOR teacher, so he was able to delegate nearly all his work and responsibilities onto those beneath him. Guess who the people were who lodged the objections????

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