Rory, Quincy, this is almost turning into a General Talk thread, which I don't mind at all. I'm sure you fellows try your hardest to judge everything dispassionately. But I think it's a lot easier for me to publish than it is for say, Chris Childers or Nick Friedman, for that matter the two of you. Thirty years ago the same was true of Red Warren and Tim Murphy. So I don't entirely ascribe a run of the table like this to the merit of the shooter, but to the virtue mentioned by ChrisGeorge, persistence. Unlike a Corbett or a Beaton, I didn't start in my fifties but in my teens. Although I took a few years off in the last four decades, I never quit. The main reason I post on this board and Quincy's equivalent is to encourage young writers never to give up.
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