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In article <1992Nov16.054911.16903@math.ucla.edu>, troly@redwood.math.ucla.edu (Bret Jolly) writes:
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|   I thought Tom Maddox's posts about his publications were
|entirely legitimate.  He is, after all, an active contributor to
|this newsgroup, not a faceless corporation.  I think many readers
|of this newsgroup are interested in seeing what qualifications
|the frequent posters have.  In this newsgroup, that means the
|ability to write, which is probably correlated with the ability
|to get published.

No insult intended to the writing abilities of the published authors
posting here, whose posts show that they do have the ability to write,
but the ability to write does not correlate with the ability to get
published.  There may be a lower cutoff, a level of quality below which
you cannot hope to be published, but if so it is very low indeed.
Beyond that I do not think you can find any relationship between ability
and publications.  (At least, in the world of fiction.  Academic works
and serious non-fiction may differ from this.)

If I seem to harp on this point in my posts, that's probably because I
do.  I have seen too many good fledgling writers torturing themselves
because they couldn't get published and therefore must be bad writers.


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