ineptwriter

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by ineptwriter 3y ago
There's 100s of literary magazines (litmags) that publish in print and/or online. They tend to focus on fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. But you'll also get commentary, news, art, comics, works in translation, litmags that fo
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by ineptwriter 6y ago
Thanks - I was using Firefox on a mac. But you're right, Chrome doesn't have this issue.
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by ineptwriter 6y ago
Neat project! Would be an interesting way to read a book. Not sure if this is a built-in feature for typing practice. But one small obstacle I encountered was that if I missed a space or I put in an extra character, but kept typing, then ev
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by ineptwriter 6y ago
Like others have said, this ignores reinvesting wealth and returns to invested wealth. Here is a table like PG's for each wealth tax %, but calculating wealth after 60 years with 4% annually compounding interest (i.e. 60 years later af
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by ineptwriter 6y ago
Hmmm... I'm also curious why JPMorgan Chase only had 4% of the rescue program ($14B out of $349B) when they have 9-10% of the commercial banking market share (IBIS World). Maybe they don't serve small businesses as much as other b
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by ineptwriter 7y ago
My point is less a knock on mathematicians and more that folks underestimate the expertise and time spent by fiction writers. And there is less support for writers along the way. And the emphasis on "more" here illustrations that.
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by ineptwriter 7y ago
Reacting to this: "I can imagine that a page of mathematics requires more expertise and time to write than a page of fiction." I cannot say exactly how much time it takes to write a page of math, but I do know that many underestim
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by ineptwriter 7y ago
As someone wrapping up his Writing MFA, I'd add, first that it's possible to treat writing and making a living as two mutually exclusive problems to solve. With a significant tech or dev background it's possible to work freel
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by ineptwriter 7y ago
There is a path to getting published in S&M without past experience. Namely, get published elsewhere first. I strongly recommend checking out McSweeney's Internet Tendency https://www.mcsweeneys.net/ Not only becau