Scroll down to the bottom here: https://whatever.scalzi.com/about/publicity-blurb-and-unpublished-work-guidelines/ … And yeah, assigning your students to bother people is not great.
Imagine the pressure you’d feel to reply, knowing what an impact you could potentially have, positive or negative, even though you *literally don’t have time*. Maybe you can reply to one, but which one? How do the unanswered kids feel if they learn you answered someone else?
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Of course authors want to encourage budding writers! We just don’t want to be volunteered to mentor one or more specific strangers, on a timeframe, without prior consultation, by someone who, however unknowlingly, has assumed we have endless free time and energy for the task.
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