If you use a computer for much of your day you MUST take steps to prevent the crippling pain this can cause. The first thing to consider is the correct (ergonomic) set-up of your computer desk and chair.
The following tips will help make sure you don't inadvertently make your page, or part of your page, invisible to visitors:
Rejections hurt--and every editor knows this. They all try to be tactful, but with their workloads increasing every year they no longer have time to help a writer whose manuscript would take up months of their time to get right. So these days the chances are that, instead of a personal letter, you'll receive a photocopied rejection that isn't dated and doesn't address you by name or mention the title of the rejected manuscript, let alone have a proper signature at the end of it. I'm not sure whether this will increase your hurt or lessen it. I had been receiving rejections for years before I started receiving this type of thing.
How many times as a child was I puzzled when a singular pronoun suddenly turned plural. Why, I wondered, should it be "If I were you?"
Well, it's simply because we're in the subjunctive mood.
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