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Writer Tech: “That which is measured, improves.”

by Mary | Feb 5, 2012 | DOC on HBO, The Cure For Anger, What I'm working on now., Writer Tech

Not sure we really need the comma in that quote, but that’s how Pearson’s Law is written in business and engineering circles. The saying was popularized by Peter Drucker, a business consultant who was particularly influential in Japan, where implementing...

Writer Tech: quoting sources in historical fiction

by Mary | Jan 22, 2012 | DREAMERS OF THE DAY, Writer Tech

Yesterday an email came in asking me a technical question about writing historical fiction about a real person. “My subject wrote an autobiography in the 1940s…. How does one handle first-person material without plagiarizing? If your subject recounts a...
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