Susan Setley on thu 5 feb 04
In a message dated 2/5/04 7:03:40 AM, melpots@PCLINK.COM writes:
> listened to a great interview with steven j. cannell, the author last week=
.
> he has made about 50 million dollars with his writing.=A0 17 books, 200=20
> articles,
> over 50 tv series..(rockford files) and, he cannot write.
> he is seriously learning disabled.=A0 dyslexic...serious.=A0=A0 he types h=
is
> material on an
> old royal typewriter and pays a woman to re/write.=A0 he cannot spell.=A0=20=
it is
> all phonetic
> writing.=A0 he claims he writes for 7 hours a day.=A0 on schedule.=A0 and=20=
you
> know what?
> he has stories to tell.
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There are some people who simply can't spell, just as there are some people=20
who simply can't carry a tune. If for some reason we were required to sing o=
ur=20
answers on pitch instead of writing them with correct spelling, a significan=
t=20
portion of the population would have been urged to take remedial singing=20
lessons.
:)
Interestingly (this is my field) -- dyslexia correlates very highly with=20
creativity.
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