Re:writers on this list
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 02:24:52 -0500
Peggy said:
> Whilst wading through the 70-odd messages that awaited me in my mailbox
> (I unfortunately don't get to check it as frequently as I'd like
> to)including the entire thread on Writers/Writing/making a living as a
> Writer/Author vs. Writer etc., it suddenly struck me that I should say
> something on behalf of the Readers on this list.
and
> I'm not trying to hinder discourse in any way, (so save any posts making
> suggestions to the contrary) just wanted to remind all the Writers of
> your audience(to use some of the lingo),the silent majority of us Readers
>who
> are also on this list.
>
> Peggy, an amateur reader if ever there was one.
Some of us are writers, some of us want to be writers, lots of us too are
addicted readers. But remember that almost nobody who writes a word can do
it without at least thinking of plenty of people like you. I mean, what
did you describe if not perfect Readerhood? And what more can any writer
-- whether in Cornish or in some hole in the wall -- ask for? (I guess
there are writers who do it just for the sake of populating their
notebooks, but I'm not talking about that.)
--tim