Tamar,

This is exactly the kind of response I was hoping to get. By hearing that the current magazines help the writers improve may encourage someone here to try doing some writing.


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>To add to what David said, when I was editing FPA, articles submitted basically fell into four categories:
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>1) Good content, good writing--these were the best, of course.
>2) Good content, weak writing--these were pretty good, too. I could usually turn these into something publishable.
>3) Weak content, good writing--I generally encouraged these people to find something else to write about and resubmit.
>4) Weak content, weak writing--these called for the most tact.
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>Since writing is a skill that improves with practice, when I saw promise, I tried hard to encourage it and to help the writer improve. I think I got better at that over time; certainly, I got better at articulating the issues.
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>Tamar