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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jul-2022 09:47:23 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   > Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.farside.link/nitter/Gabino_Igl…
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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jul-2022 13:54:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • WyliecoyoteUK
     @wyliecoyoteuk That's just Sturgeon's Law.
   • WyliecoyoteUK (wyliecoyoteuk@mastodon.org.uk)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jul-2022 13:54:12 UTC WyliecoyoteUK

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     @clacke
     Very true. Unfortunately many of those books are unpublishable or just dull.

   • Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN) (ken_fallon@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jul-2022 15:42:52 UTC Ken Fallon (PA7KEN, G5KEN)

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     @clacke I suspect they meet up with so many would be @hpr hosts, that the get distracted

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   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jul-2022 15:45:17 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}

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     I have several times started writing a book. Generally, that lasts less than two weeks, then I get busy with something else and when I come across it again later, I think "this is crap; why did I think anyone would ever want to read this?".