Rene, most of my participation in my Internet interests is
done with work staring at me from my desk. Thanks again for
the welcome.
Angie: Most women in abusive relationships get out, if at
all, only after many years. Angie's commitment to an abusive
marriage is part of what makes her real. That she survived
it, didn't curl up and die spiritually, and went on being a
good PI is what makes her hardboiled to me (here we go with
definitions again). She's like Socrates, who lost decades in
prison for murder, came out and tried his best to figure out
what the hell came next. That element of vulnerability
interacting with the strength a particular character needs to
go on is one of the things that keeps me interested in this
genre.
My two cents on proofing: As my day job, I work on a medical
journal of about 350 printed pages per month. Unlike business
people, many physicians and basic science researchers still
have one or many secretaries to type their work. The
secretary reads the article, the author reads it, an editor
in that specialty approves it, three peer reviewers read it,
I edit it, going over it three times, our proofreader
corrects it, the author gets it back for approval, more
corrections are made on final proof and still we find some
dumb errors in print. Leading to the conclusion, perfection
is what you can accomplish by deadline.
Cheers,
Sally
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