[Md-sligo] I got a poem accepted

Fri Nov 3 12:25:52 UTC 2017

Yasmin

Thank you for the good words.

Acutally, in the days of computers in which we live, statistics is a lot less about calculations than it was when I was growing up.  It is a lot about communicating with numbers.  To be a good statistician you have to figure out the truth the numbers are trying to tell you and get it in to a report with the best tables, charts, etc. That you can use to tell the numbers' story.  So statistics is about communicating with numbers and writing fiction / poetry is about communicating with words.

Once again thanks.

Shawn

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Subject: Re: [Md-sligo] I got a poem accepted

Shawn,
It is great to know that a person who works as a statistician can write fiction and poetry.
Keep up the good work. When you are done with crunching the numbers you play with words.

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Subject: Re: [Md-sligo] I got a poem accepted

Thank you for all who commented on my message.  Thank you for the good words and encouragement.

The poem will be published in Bewildering Stories the week of December 4th.  The title will be "Star Watch".  The editors felt like "Stars" was too generic a title and wanted in jazzed up some.  We went back and forth on titles yesterday and came up with this one.

Once again thanks for the support.

Shawn

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Subject: I got a poem accepted

Just wanted to let you all know that I got a poem accepted by Bewildering Stories.  Again, this did not pay out any money, but it is an online magazine that accepts work from the wider world, not just the disabilities community.  So I'm doing my happy dance.

Shawn
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