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  • ...sed and include only the telling details. Also, I learned to be more objective about my own writing: In a t...Finally, writing for pay gave me a strong sense that my writing had "objective" monetary value and was a ski...
  • ...uses. We read all the submissions for quality and we place the books on a track. We explain our rationale. Of course, readers are not completely objective, but we are all book professi...
  • Great article, thank you. I found Objective Correlatives especially helpful. : )
  • Maria, I'm afraid the substitute of nominative for objective case in pronouns comes from an effort to avoid the "hick-speech" such as "Me and him went to the store." So folks use the n...
  • ...or hurtful. It's all a process. Even psyching myself up to read her suggestions is part of the process. So I'm giving myself time to become more objective about my work. But it makes m...
  • ...hanges as I became my own beta reader, when I understood that this careful kind of reading, much of it aloud, forced me to see my book in a more objective way than I"d ever seen it.  S...
  • ...d to "old school journalism" where the reporter is out of the story and appears to be unbiased. Journalists are taught to be objective, but a memoir is anything but objective!  So this style gives me free...
  • ...But now, as I move into a more serious position as a writer seeking an agent, I hired a free-lance editor to "give it to me straight". With the objective that this editor was hired to...
  • Phenomenal post, Brooke. Pitch perfect. Thank you for helping us (especially newbies like me) navigate through  the publishing jungle with your always pithy, objective, wise machete (perspective.)
  • ...were speaking to me personally.  I am working through what seems an unending maze of ideas, but lack of focus and I have lost the ability to be objective...I need a break!  Though I c...