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           They never mentioned the aluminum cans in writing class …
                                        
> After Twenty Years
> 
> You'll never understand the workings of interest rates, but over time—
> notice how you don't have kids with which to bother, or a spouse, seeing as
> you've been slightly focused on your work—your savings will grow and grow
> and grow. You'll get more book deals, and a chance to leave the trailer in
> order to speak to people at colleges. They'll pay you more money than the
> magazines, somehow. And you'll speak at writers' conferences, even though
> you never even attended one over the years.
> 
> You never attended because A) they cost way too much money; and B) you
> wrote over that time instead of talked about writing.
> 

Via Hacker News [1], “HOW TO WRITE STORIES … and lose weight, clean up the
environment, and make a million dollars. [2]”

It sounds like good advice, and it's certainly a shorter read than Stephen
King's [3] _On Writing_ [4].

I just didn't realize writing involved picking up so many aluminum cans.

I'll have to ask my friend Hoade [5] about that … 

[1] https://boston.conman.org/
[2] http://www.oxfordamericanmag.com/content.cfm?ArticleID=309
[3] http://www.stephenking.com/
[4] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743455967/conmanlaborat-20
[5] http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595095291/conmanlaborat-

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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