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Originally Posted by Jayne Osborn
D & A is a fun place. We all get on well with one another and there's never any unpleasantness like ad hom remarks.
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That's very true, Jayne. And perhaps rather odd, since of all the forums, that is the one where we are, literally, most in competition with one another. But what we actually get in D & A is helpful advice as to how we might improve a phrase here or there, or correct the metre without changing the sense, which for me is what "workshopping" should be - none of that "
This poem is awful, and if I'd written it, it would be completely different and much better" stuff that, alas, sometimes pollutes the non-Amusement forums. I exaggerate, of course, but I'm sure you recognize the phenomenon.
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Originally Posted by Jayne Osborn
I regret some of the things I've done in my life (who doesn't?) but harking back to the past is a pointless exercise.
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As the man said, Jayne, even nostalgia isn't what it used to be.