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<blockquote data-quote="Jonny Nexus" data-source="post: 3619487" data-attributes="member: 14664">Did you also have the rule that you weren't allowed to say anything for the several minutes they took to discuss it?I had that with a comedy SF story (in the UFO conspiriciana sub-genre) that I'd taken to my non-SF writing group.They spent several minutes discussing whether or not the people of Earth in my story were aware that aliens from UFOs were colonising the Earth (which they weren't, obviously... I mean that's the whole point of the conspiracy genre, isn't it?) and eventually concluded that my use of the phrase &quot;They say the truth is out there&quot; in my blurb indicated that the aliens were completely in the open with everyone knowing that aliens were among them.(i.e. They concluded that the phrase &quot;the truth is out there&quot; means &quot;the truth is known&quot; as opposed to what it actually means, &quot;there's is a truth, but it is being hidden from us&quot;).And everytime I tried to say something, I was politely told that I couldn't speak.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jonny Nexus, post: 3619487, member: 14664"] Did you also have the rule that you weren't allowed to say anything for the several minutes they took to discuss it? I had that with a comedy SF story (in the UFO conspiriciana sub-genre) that I'd taken to my non-SF writing group. They spent several minutes discussing whether or not the people of Earth in my story were aware that aliens from UFOs were colonising the Earth (which they weren't, obviously... I mean that's the whole point of the conspiracy genre, isn't it?) and eventually concluded that my use of the phrase "They say the truth is out there" in my blurb indicated that the aliens were completely in the open with everyone knowing that aliens were among them. (i.e. They concluded that the phrase "the truth is out there" means "the truth is known" as opposed to what it actually means, "there's is a truth, but it is being hidden from us"). And everytime I tried to say something, I was politely told that I couldn't speak. :( [/QUOTE]

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