re: #447 haakondahl

“So I take it that you have submitted, but not been published, to put it delicately?

You have a paycheck because somebody else took a risk with his future and started a company. An author has a paycheck because he took a risk with his own future, and started to write.

If you think that’s a good deal, and you think you have what it takes, then Man Up. If not, then shut up.”

Well, haakondahl, I’ve never submitted anything I’ve written (except to my dissertation committee) and I’ve never been rejected. I don’t make up little stories for bored housewives or airplane travelers, I analyze problems and write results in a form that others can understand and use to produce things that make people’s lives better. My analysis is purchased from my company (which I co-created, by the way) and my “royalties,” if you want to think of it this way, come in the form of repeat business and continued productivity.

I would suggest that, if you’re an author (or one of those many here who want to think of themselves that way), then “man up” your damn self and write for a company that solves real problems, Bud. JF