#Person1#: You're going to wear out the computer's keyboard!
#Person2#: Oh, hi.
#Person1#: Do you have any idea what time it is?
#Person2#: About ten or ten-thirty?
#Person1#: It's nearly midnight.
#Person2#: Really? I didn't know it was so late.
#Person1#: Don't you have an early class to teach tomorrow morning?
#Person2#: Yes, at seven o'clock. My commuter class, the students who go to work right after their lesson.
#Person1#: Then you ought to go to bed. What are you writing, anyway?
#Person2#: An article I hope I can sell.
#Person1#: Oh, another of your newspaper pieces? What's this one about?
#Person2#: Do you remember the trip I took last month?
#Person1#: The one up to the Amazon?
#Person2#: Well, that's what I'm writing about-the new highway and the changes it's making in the Amazon valley.
#Person1#: It should be interesting.
#Person2#: It is. I guess that's why I forgot all about the time.
#Person1#: How many articles have you sold now?
#Person2#: About a dozen so far.
#Person1#: What kind of newspapers buy them?
#Person2#: The papers that carry a lot of foreign news. They usually appear in the big Sunday editions where they need a lot of background stories to help fill up the space between the ads.
#Person1#: Is there any future in it?
#Person2#: I hope so. There's a chance I may sell this article to a news service.
#Person1#: Then your story would be published in several papers, wouldn't it?
#Person2#: That's the idea. And I might even be able to do other stories on a regular basis.
#Person1#: That would be great.
#Person1# reminds #Person2# who is typing an article about #Person2#'s trip up to the Amazon last month that it's late at night. #Person2# hopes to sell the article to a news service and then #Person2# might be able to do other stories regularly.
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