| --> | | | | will create lasting friendships with, since difference |
| I'm amused how little geographic location matters | | | | is often interesting, and I want to chat with |
| on the Internet. I often smile when I wonder if | | | | writers with different strengths and weaknesses. |
| the person I'm chatting with is even on the same | | | | I dream of finding a complementary writer, and |
| continent. Everyone in the world might as well be | | | | co-writing great books filled with my terrific plots |
| just across the street, if they are using the same | | | | and their awesome descriptions. This person |
| messenger program or in the same chat room. | | | | probably exists somewhere in the world, and |
| The irrelevance of distance and location is on my | | | | thanks to the Internet where they are located is |
| mind because I am expecting to have a rush of | | | | fairly irrelevant. |
| new Internet friends. I've just started an online | | | | So far I know the physical location of only two of |
| novel writing course with Forward Movement | | | | my classmates out of dozens. I know that one |
| Writers ). My classmates and I will all be looking at | | | | lives in the same city as I do since she belongs to |
| each others' work, giving encouragement and | | | | the same local writing group and is the one who |
| ideas to each other. Three weeks in, having | | | | told me about the course. The other lives on a |
| barely started out on the two year course, I've | | | | different continent. It doesn't matter much with |
| already got one great suggestion that inspired a | | | | Internet friends. It just means that they are |
| new subplot. I'm sure I will 'click' with some of | | | | having breakfast after I've finished dinner. I'll |
| these aspiring writers and not with others. I'll find | | | | sometimes be asked, 'How was your day?' |
| some people who like the same books, think like | | | | before breakfast. Actually that's often when the |
| me, and write the same way that I do. Plus I'll | | | | question of geographic location comes up-when |
| encounter others who write and think very | | | | one of us realizes the time difference, or that we |
| differently. I'm not sure which of these people I | | | | have different public holidays. |