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Oct. 22nd, 2019 11:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grassangelThe one thing I don't like about participating in democracy beyond voting in elections by writing emails to ministers and making submissions on Bills and their amendments, is that there's an awful lot of research and essay writing.
And unhappily you DON'T get a grade on it afterwards, or even comments on it from peers, so even though it's an awful lot like school work, you get none of the nice social recognition stuff for doing any of it
I mean there is the reward of helping the good thing get through or making sure the bad thing doesn't, but it's not nearly so satisfying as writing fic is. Or even poetry which you don't let anyone else see!
(Speaking of, I should research NZ magazines and such that publish poetry as somehow I find myself with lots of pieces that I quite like, but they are short and I only should research them, which means I won't)
And unhappily you DON'T get a grade on it afterwards, or even comments on it from peers, so even though it's an awful lot like school work, you get none of the nice social recognition stuff for doing any of it
I mean there is the reward of helping the good thing get through or making sure the bad thing doesn't, but it's not nearly so satisfying as writing fic is. Or even poetry which you don't let anyone else see!
(Speaking of, I should research NZ magazines and such that publish poetry as somehow I find myself with lots of pieces that I quite like, but they are short and I only should research them, which means I won't)
