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  "thread": {
    "id": 4863,
    "subject": "\"What I Know About Writing (in no particular order),\"",
    "messages": 4,
    "voices": 3,
    "first": "2007-06-21T16:13:37+00:00",
    "last": "2007-06-22T04:40:38+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<d716a1c40706210913x34ccc2a0wb2734fbc1919ca33@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "mfstraight at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-06-21T16:13:37+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"What I Know About Writing (in no particular order),\"",
      "in_reply_to": null,
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          "text": "Michael Swanwick's essay about Wolfe in the F&SF special issue\nmentions an essay by Wolfe called \"What I Know About Writing (in no\nparticular order).\"  Here's Swanwick's essay:\n\nhttp://www.sfsite.com/fsf/2007/gwms0704.htm\n\nAnyone know where this essay can be found?  The best Google could do\nfor me was this archived copy of a website that no longer exists and\nthat misspells Wolfe's name.\n\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20030402150536/subnet.pinder.net/onwriting/index.asp?name=./References/19970101wolfe.htm\n\nRostrum"
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<AFEFKBJKJDDJOMBNACBNMEHCDEAA.nigelprice@onetel.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Nigel Price",
        "address": "nigelprice at onetel.net"
      },
      "date": "2007-06-21T18:55:58+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth)  \"What I Know About Writing (in no particular order),\"",
      "in_reply_to": "<d716a1c40706210913x34ccc2a0wb2734fbc1919ca33@mail.gmail.com>",
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          "text": "Rostrum asked about Wolfe's \"What I Know About Writing (in no particular\norder)\"..."
        },
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          "depth": 2,
          "text": "Anyone know where this essay can be found?\nThe best Google could do for me was this\narchived copy of a website that no longer\nexists and that misspells Wolfe's name.\n\nhttp://web.archive.org/web/20030402150536/subnet.pinder.net/onwriting/inde\nx.asp?name=./References/19970101wolfe.htm"
        },
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          "text": "I don't think that this was an essay as such. It's a list of tips and bullet\npoints and the link you provide leads straight to it. Some excellent\npractical, writerly, advice there.\n\nNigel"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "message_id": "<c05.1890f5ea.33ac2999@aol.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "JBarach at aol.com",
        "address": "jbarach at aol.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-06-21T19:20:57+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"What I Know About Writing (in no particular order),\"",
      "in_reply_to": "<AFEFKBJKJDDJOMBNACBNMEHCDEAA.nigelprice@onetel.net>",
      "reply_link": "subject",
      "blocks": [
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          "text": " \nIn a message dated 6/21/2007 11:56:35 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  \nnigelprice at onetel.net writes:\n\nI don't  think that this was an essay as such. It's a list of tips and bullet\npoints  and the link you provide leads straight to it. Some excellent\npractical,  writerly, advice there.\n\n\n\nHere's another link ('cause when I tried the one you gave it didn't work  for \nme):\n \n_http://web.archive.org/web/20010113234500/http://carl.pinder.com/onwriting/wo\nlfe.htm_ \n(http://web.archive.org/web/20010113234500/http://carl.pinder.com/onwriting/wolfe.htm) \n \nJohn"
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    },
    {
      "message_id": "<d716a1c40706212140s460e1458r6acda1ea36e2bc4d@mail.gmail.com>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Michael Straight",
        "address": "mfstraight at gmail.com"
      },
      "date": "2007-06-22T04:40:38+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) \"What I Know About Writing (in no particular order),\"",
      "in_reply_to": "<AFEFKBJKJDDJOMBNACBNMEHCDEAA.nigelprice@onetel.net>",
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          "text": "On 6/21/07, Nigel Price <nigelprice at onetel.net> wrote:\n\n\n\nI don't think that this was an essay as such. It's a list of tips and\nbullet\npoints and the link you provide leads straight to it. Some excellent\npractical, writerly, advice there."
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          "text": "I know someone who would like to quote one Wolfe's suggestions (viz: \"Almost\nany interesting work or art comes close to saying the opposite of what it\nreally says.\") in a scholarly context, so she's hoping to find a better\ncitation than an archive of a dead webpage.\n\nKinda funny that John found a link to an archive of a different, but also\ndead, webpage.  (Thanks John.  At least Pinder spelled Wolfe's name right.)\n\nRostrum"
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