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[leahbobet]

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Needless to say, the best back cover blurb for Paul's Real Estate Novels posted in comments will win whuffie, the respect and admiration of your peers, and fabulous, fabulous internet prizes.

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novelist

[(Anonymous)]

When you read the body copy in ads for houses and so forth, in the newspaper and in those special magazines that they publish, the content is largely a work of fiction or, at the least, of considerable artistic licence. It is in this sense that he is a real estate novelist, not that he writes novels and is a real estate agent.

I doubt that real estate agents would play Dungeons and Dragons. I also doubt that they would feel the need to fictionalise their profession at parties. Maybe things are different in other parts of the world, but around here real estate agents are all about the business, and about making contacts, and sealing deals. They work long hours in a lucrative job, and they are not - based on the real estate agents that i know - likely to be ashamed of their job.

Most real estate agents i know make more money than 98% of the novelists i know of, and they have all sold many more houses than novelists have generally sold book titles.

It's all noble and everything to be a writer, but i don't think it's such a great profession that other professionals hanker for chucking in their perfectly good livelihoods to take on the supposed joys of rejection slips and law suits.

I don't know a single real estate agent who is smug about their profession, and who thinks that it's somehow better than other professions. Maybe there's a leaf to be had from their book.

That's a metaphor. Did you pick that?

Re: novelist

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