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In <1k268lINN1ln@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> mgcbo@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Charles B. Owen) writes:

>Fire and Brimstone on you.  No, seriously, I just recently completed the
>combination of rereading Heinlein's _Friday_ and Ansen Dibell's _Plot_.
>There is not doubt in my mind that, if that novel been send over the
>transom to a publisher with no name on it that it would have been
>rejected.  (And you thought you would get flames!)  This and most books
>I have on writing fiction point out numerous problems in this novel that
>should have been fixed.  

Which, I guess, is why you see so many Ansen Dibell novels on the 
bestseller rack. :-)


>I guess what I am saying, Maureen/Jane, is that I agree with you that Mr.
>Heinlein may not be the best example/expert in fiction writing.  The
>knowledge to do something is not always equivalent to the ability to
>teach.  

Those who can, do...