Compiled by M. Barnard from the responses of the crew at misc.writing:
Old Writers Never Die...
And we responded gleefully...
..they just live happily ever after.
epmadsen@icon.intercon.net
..they just get deleted.
cm_vroo@alcor.concordia.ca (MDurning)
..they just get sentenced to death.
anghara@ihug.co.nz (Alma Hromic)
..but that can be taken care of.
Bob Pastorio (Pastorio@rica.net)
..but their participles dangle more and more each year.
saslpo@stevens.unx.sas.com (Len Olszewski)
..they just miss their deadline.
comicdet@ix.netcom.com(Dean L Scoville)
..they just quit having periods.
Karen_Mayer%TOUCH_TECHNOLOGY@notesgw.CompuServe.com
..Hmmm.... doesn't sound right...
dwyman@halcyon.com (Douglas Wyman)
..their nibs just wear out.
cfzl@aol.com (CfzL)
..they just run out of ink.
..they just run out of disc space.
ehschbr@aom.ericsson.se (Christina Bronnestam)
ink also by Bill (wjlpph@ritvax.isc.rit.edu)
..which is a shame, really. They continue to clog the bookshelves with their
new works, preventing us younger writers from getting the exposure we
desperately need.
mlgoodell@aol.com (MLGoodell) (my personal favorite :-)
..they just become cliché.
garbanzo@ix.netcom.com(Michael H. Bean)
..they just end up in the "Sale" bin.
..they simply get edited out.
m-17160@mailbox.swipnet.se (Mark Manning)
..forget to include a SASE.
LOUISE@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu
..are taking some time to research their next novel.
mike.huber@software.rockwell.com
..they just go between the lines.
mystra@mindspring.com (Toni Stauffer)
..they just finally quit being published.
..they just finally get published.
..they just become ghostwriters.
rha007.tcom.bicc.ohsu@ohsu.edu
..their handwriting fades away.
ab388@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Jules E. Lafrance)
..they just forget to click the File, Save menu option of their word
processor.
hsyeoh@pop.jaring.my (Seah H. Yeoh)
..they just become like Mark Twain and Theodore Sturgeon or, unfortunately
for some, like Zoa Pinwalt (who?...exactly.)
sbenbow@ix.netcom.com (NightMare)
..they just rot away on used bookstore shelves.
WalksInSun (spiritsong@mail.loop.com)
..they just...perish?...no...expire?...naw, that's not it, ...keel over? (*Aw
hell, where's my Thesaurus?*)
Shadowsinger (tlw663@freenet.mb.ca) (I also like this one!)
..they just get remaindered.
Ivy Lee (lwyndham@awod.com)
also Jack Mingo and jmacdmant@oanet.com (Janice)
..they just stop dashing and getting periods, and spend more time worrying
about their colons.
..they just lose their literary license.
..they just settle into their last plot.
..they just get stuck in chapter 11.
jmingo@aol.com (JMingo)
..they just go out of print.
Jan Six (Jan.Six@uku.fi)
..they just make another trip to the refrigerator to make sure the food is
STILL there! (Think it's time for Barbara to eat din-din...)
..they just lapse into commas?
labbmf@ix.netcom.com(Larry Bassel/Barbara Frezza )
..they just get condensed.
jmacdmant@oanet.com (Janice)
..they just live on kill fees.
westphal@ix.netcom.com (Fred and Dorothy Westphal)
..think of a great ending but procrastinate until the post is deleted from
their newspools.
wcgreen@cris.com@cris.com (Wendy Chatley Green)
..they just keep on producing crap because it pays well.
..they just find a nobody to co-author with them.
..they just produce anthologies of stories written by others in their
patented universe.
..they just do anything for money but deliver a well-written, original novel.
..they just prostitute the field.
karel@cs.ucsb.edu (Karel Driesen)