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[salvagejob]

Early in Round 2 of my writing life I wrote a story about a PhD non-finisher.  It's a first person story, which I no doubt considered clever at the time, i.e., you have to read between the lines a bit to see what trouble he's in.  (And he is in trouble: deeply in debt, his marriage heavily strained, living with his wife and daughter in his mom's

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[petercampbell]

Writers are pathetically grateful for any sort of positive comment - even if it's from your daughter's teacher. It must be because it's such a solitary occupation.

I suspect you're far from the only parent to help their child out in this manner either. Think of it as an equalising process.

[salvagejob]

It was absolutely positively done in self defense. I swear. It's like when I had my first driving lesson, which took place in a car fitted out with a second steering wheel, brake, and accelerator. For the teacher. Eventually I realized that the instructor was giving the car extra gas. "Someone's got to make this thing go," he said.