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"A writing career becomes harder to scale"

Read this:"A writing career becomes harder to scale" by Dani ShapiroThoughts?A long excerpt (only a portion of the total essay) with emphases added by me:Rereading Solotaroff’s essay, as I did...

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Actually Lee, you are not far off. Ft. Lauderdale was a very small city just on the verge of it's boom years. I lived in an outlying suburb with the Everglades literally at my back door. There were...

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I remember reading that there has never been a case involving a trick-or-treater being attacked by a child molester, but for some bizarre reason communities continue to go to extreme lengths to...

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Bookhoard wrote: I remember reading that there has never been a case involving a trick-or-treater being attacked by a child molester, but for some bizarre reason communities continue to go to extreme...

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Not very common, either: http://www.snopes.com/horrors/poison/halloween.asp

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I guess after 50 years some real events become urban legend.

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Writing ought to be as tough as possible and pay even less than it does now. Then maybe a million or so of them would quit...Scott NicholsonHaunted Computer Books

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"I guess after 50 years some real events become urban legend." Nope. Always were. The only actual, recorded poisoning crimes against children around Halloween involve people using those stories to try...

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RN Lee wrote: "I guess after 50 years some real events become urban legend."Nope. Always were. The only actual, recorded poisoning crimes against children around Halloween involve people using those...

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No newspapers, crime blotters, or medical records fifty years ago either? Fascinating.

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Obviously if there were, it would not be available to the average individual without a lot of red tape and time. Frankly a forum discussion is not worth the effort, so it is pointless to continue this.

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Newspapers are generally available at the local library on microfiche or microfilm.

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Frank, before there was an Internet, a lot of us here learned how to scour the entire records of local newspapers and national ones and magazines, even, the old-fashioned way. As kids, at the library....

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Papers keeping archives on microfiche is hardly a new thing, I'd agree. can you get a look at your local PD's blotters without some sort of badge, though?

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RN Lee wrote: Frank, before there was an Internet, a lot of us here learned how to scour the entire records of local newspapers and national ones and magazines, even, the old-fashioned way. As kids,...

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dogpoet wrote:can you get a look at your local PD's blotters without some sort of badge, though? Yes, other than crimes currently under investigation, all police records are public (redacting people's...

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"Exactly my point. Since I now live no where near to Florida, it is not worth the effort to go there just to look this up. You both have my best wishes if you want to undertake that trip." You're...

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this reminds of that time in the '80s where that nationwide satanic cult tortured all those kids. true story! phil donahue even said so!

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When I got divorced, it took like five minutes of signing papers with my lawyer and I had to pay for an hour and I pointed and went "Um...why do you have that book?" And the lawyer went "Why do you...

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Ed Carroll wrote:[quote="dogpoet"]can you get a look at your local PD's blotters without some sort of badge, though? Yes, other than crimes currently under investigation, all police records are public...

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