JMS: What can't you?

JBONETATI

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Aug 29, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/29/99

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JMS,

Amazon.com just found me a copy of Tales from the New Twilight Zone (yippee!)
and I started looking for an online bibliography for you. Closest I found was
a posting from '92 where you listed quite a few things.

Just by catagory, I know that you've written:

stage plays novels short stories comic books
song lyrics newspaper articles radio shows magazine
columns
screenplays for both live action and animated from 1/2 hour to MOW length
a textbook

So my question is: Is there anything you simply can't or won't write? Or have
you just not gotten around to poetry and symphonies yet? <g>

Thanks, as always,

Jan

Jms at B5

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Aug 29, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/29/99

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>Just by catagory, I know that you've written:
>
>stage plays novels short stories comic books
>song lyrics newspaper articles radio shows magazine
>columns

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Jms at B5

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Aug 29, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/29/99

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Ignore the other post...I hit the wrong flipping button.

To quote again:

>Just by catagory, I know that you've written:
>
>stage plays novels short stories comic books
>song lyrics newspaper articles radio shows magazine
>columns

>screenplays for both live action and animated from 1/2 hour to MOW length
>a textbook
>So my question is: Is there anything you simply can't or won't write? Or
>have
>you just not gotten around to poetry and symphonies yet? <g>

I totally suck at poetry. At best I can come up with a kind of doggerel that
should never be seen by anydamnbody.

My feeling is that each kind of writing you do makes you better at another kind
of writing, therefore it behooves you to do it all, if at all possible.
Writing an article teaches you structure, which you use in a screenplay; a
screenplay teaches you dialogue which you use in a short story; a short story
teaches you narrative structure which you can apply to novels...and so on.

It's all meant to be a learning experience. It's when you stop learning that
the trouble starts.

JBONETATI

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Aug 30, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/30/99

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<<My feeling is that each kind of writing you do makes you better at another
kind
of writing, therefore it behooves you to do it all, if at all possible.
Writing an article teaches you structure, which you use in a screenplay; a
screenplay teaches you dialogue which you use in a short story; a short story
teaches you narrative structure which you can apply to novels...and so on.>>

So when does your next textbook come out? If it's not in the works it certainly
should be!

Jan

Robert Rhodes

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Aug 31, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/31/99

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jms...@aol.com (Jms at B5) wrote:
> Ignore the other post...I hit the wrong flipping button.

Well... Ok, I'll let it go this time.

Of course, in five-plus years of reading your posts, I think it's the
first time I've seen you goof up.

You realize that now the secret is out:

You're human after all.

RLR

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Michael Ross

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Aug 31, 1999, 3:00:00 AM8/31/99

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On 29 Aug 1999 22:47:33 -0600, jms...@aol.com (Jms at B5) wrote:

snip..

>My feeling is that each kind of writing you do makes you better at another kind
>of writing, therefore it behooves you to do it all, if at all possible.

snip...

I await the libretto for the first earth production of Narn opera with
bated breath...

Mike, who really needs to get some sleep, or a life, or something...!

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