Umm, I meant all those questions seriously and not argumentatively, just in case it's not tonally conveyed. Probably because of the way I joined SFWA and the things I took out of it I never had the impression that it was an old boys club (well, old persons club, which doesn't quite work, but you know what I mean), and possibly because of the old boards, there are people that are constant white noise to me (in the don't feed the trolls sense of white noise).
I understand why there's a minimum level for pro access -- because in theory the organization is supposed to help professional writers who want to make money and possibly a living writing genre fiction. So in theory they're not going to be of use to people who aren't trying to do that. But possibly because I was published when things were much more static, I never ran up against that particular wall.
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Date: 2007-03-29 02:18 am (UTC)I understand why there's a minimum level for pro access -- because in theory the organization is supposed to help professional writers who want to make money and possibly a living writing genre fiction. So in theory they're not going to be of use to people who aren't trying to do that. But possibly because I was published when things were much more static, I never ran up against that particular wall.