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The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants

The rules seem to be these: If you have written a successful novel, everyone invites you to write short stories. If you have written some good short stories, everyone wants you to write a novel. But nobody wants anything until you have already proved yourself by being published somewhere else.

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Writing, Successful, Somewhere Else

A writer can make a fortune in America, but he can't make a living.

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America, Fortune

A group of two dozen nurses completely surrounded by 100,000 unattached American men.

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Men, Two, Nurse
"Tales of the South Pacific". Book by James A. Michener, 1947.

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.

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Years, Orbit, Done
James A. Michener (2014). “Space: A Novel”, p.22, Dial Press

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