OT: too true to be funny

[Brian Ellis]

How To Become A Great Writer

There once was a young man who professed a desire to become a "great" writer. When asked to define "great", he said "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, wail, howl in pain, desperation and anger!"

So, appropriately enough, he now works for Microsoft writing error messages!

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Brian (the terrible)



[This message has been edited by Brian Ellis (edited 13 April 2000).]

[This_Idiot]

But did you know that he served his apprenticeship writing for Mills & Boon ?

It was direct intervention from BG that led to BSOD instead of the original idea of a sobbing cry as he ripped the flimsy fabric from her bodice.

Luckily BeOS have Barbara Cartland on their books, although apparently it was a close-run competition against Stephen King