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Mar 1Liked by Mark Leiren-Young

Glad you are Substacking instead of giving up!

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Thanks. I'll never stop writing - but "selling" articles and especially commentaries was making less and less sense.

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OMG! I so resemble these remarks. Some of these stories could have been mine! “Helpful” editors, a dearth of copyeditors and who is standing where the buck stops? Thee and me.

However I get your words (and I get them any way I can) your writing continues to bring me joy.

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Thanks! I didn't realize how spoiled I was by my early editors who almost always improved my stuff and, even when they didn't, their changes rarely changed things from accurate to inaccurate 'though wow I had some nightmares with overzealous, under-qualified fact-checkers at Maclean's... Hmm... maybe another post in that :)

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