Please help, I have tried numerous times to
unsubscribe to your chat group - but to no avail.  My
inbox is infested with messages about information I
don't care to read or keep.  I see your name often as
I am deleting messages and I know that you are quite
active with the chat.  Please help me get off this
train, for I have too little time to delete 320
messages per week.

Thanks for your suggestions.
Ryan Bergstrom

--- Ken Follett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> In a message dated 6/10/00 9:46:14 AM Central
> Daylight Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Dear Storti,
>
> > When, and how, did you understand your future was
> in literature?
>
> When I was fourteen and sitting in the basement at
> home a brilliant green
> light shown in the window and suddenly I realized my
> destiny was to be a
> writer. Before that I was confused about wanting to
> go to sea or be a
> fireman. Being a writer seemed to combine all of my
> lack of talents into one
> problem.
>
> >  How could I get the competence to write best
> seller novels?
>
> Learn to write very very simple sentences that
> anyone can understand about
> boy meets girl and boy treats girl badly and girl
> loves boy and boy loves
> porpoise (autobiography) so they all go live humpty
> humpty on an island and
> very very brilliant baby porpoises learn to save the
> world. Sort of like
> George Orwell on steroids, I predict human/animal
> stories are the next wave
> in best sellers.
>
> > What makes the difference between an author
> selling thousands and thousands
> > of copies and an unknown author selling very few?
>
> Money. If you don't have any then marry a wealthy
> woman. Marry several
> wealthy women. Marry wealthy women that are editors
> for big magazines. If you
> cannot marry a wealthy woman then you will have to
> get a job and you won't
> have time to write anything worthwhile. Whatever you
> do, don't teach creative
> writing.
>
> >  Could you give me the address of some publishers
> I could send my novel
> when I finish it?
>
> No, sorry, no can do. You will have to ask the Ken
> Follett that writes those
> best seller novels.
>
> Ken Follett (not that guy, but thanks just the same)


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