Tag: integrity
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Protected: Of Myths, Beliefs and The Integrity of Our Intent …
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Of Actions, Integrity and Trusting Our Choices…
In stating, “…mothers and daughters cannot serve as best friends to the other…,” Linda Perlman Gordon and Susan Morris Shaffer add in an excerpt from Too Close for Comfort: Questioning the Intimacy of Today’s New Mother-Daughter Relationship , that the …basic question… a mother must answer is: “…Do you trust your daughter to be an…
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Of Writing, Integrity and The Company We Keep…
“When we set out to judge—ridicule pillory, condemn, sneer at or…impugn our characters–we fail at our objective. Instead of making our characters look bad we make ourselves suspect.” —-Peter Selgin, 179 Ways to Save a Novel: Matters of Vital Concern to Fiction Writers We are known by the company we keep. In the case of…
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Smog Checks, The Publishing World, and Integrity…
Editors encounter problems and resistance when after stating a manuscript needs work then proceed to explain how they can abandon, or as is often the case, assist with developmental editing in addition to providing copy edits. This situation resembles the gas station mechanic who after stating your car failed smog inspection then says, “And I…