Vatine

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Quite boring, really. Have faffed about with computers since the mid-80s, have worked as a network engineer, unix sysadmin and (occasionally) developer.

	600 reputation	bio	website		visits	member for	2 years, 6 months
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Feb 18	revised	Very Dark Fantasy edited tags
Feb 10	awarded	Citizen Patrol
Jan 21	revised	What's Essential In A Combat Scene? more typo fix
Jan 20	comment	Fan Fiction: a crutch or a good start? I'd probably say "original" instead of "real", but, yeah.
Jan 20	answered	What's Essential In A Combat Scene?
Jan 20	awarded	Nice Question
Jan 12	answered	Correct spelling errors while writing or after you've finished?
Dec 19	comment	Can I self-publish, and how much would it cost? @QuickerSnarkerBacker From what I understand, "not much". Their primary selling-market is the authors who they vanity-publish, to whom they will sell copies they can then give or sell on. There may be books printed and ware-housed, but in general vanity publishing is more full of "don't go there" than not.
Dec 11	awarded	Quorum
Dec 7	answered	Is there any hope of a fictional short story being published?
Dec 1	accepted	How to figure out if an agent is “on the straight” or “shady”?
Nov 29	awarded	Beta
Nov 25	comment	How to figure out if an agent is “on the straight” or “shady”? @neilfein Good idea, done.
Nov 25	revised	How to figure out if an agent is “on the straight” or “shady”? Expanded the question, changed title
Nov 25	comment	How to figure out if an agent is “on the straight” or “shady”? I wasn't entirely sure before posting the question, but I suspect there's enough differences in "signals shady" that I thought it better to post this question as well (I am aware of the other question, being the one who posted it).
Nov 25	asked	How to figure out if an agent is “on the straight” or “shady”?
Nov 24	awarded	Editor
Nov 24	revised	Could I reach the level of good writing style as non-native language speaker? Ooops, missed two crucials words, Hannu wrote the book in English, of course.
Nov 23	comment	Do Writers Use LaTex/TeX for writing? TeX is not that nice, as a raw format, but for LaTeX, I'd say that most of my "source" is body text, rather than commands. I don't actually have a breakdown, but can certainly try to get something, if people are interested.
Nov 22	comment	Warning signs that a publisher may be shady? Both of these were good answers, but on the balance, I had to accept the more complete. I was thinking of "Writer Beware" when I asked the question (my example in the question is far-too-frequently mentioned there), but thought it to be a good question to have in the open.