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Gigi Will Know

How do you gauge your level of writing and how to improve? I have different types of writing experiences, and as I move up in my writing career, I would like to figure out my strengths and what I need to improve upon. Thank you,

—TRYING TO PROGRESS

Dear Trying,

Oh, my . Are you telling me you’ve never heard of the Pen-to-Paper Skillorometer? magazine, and I’ll send one right out to you. You hold one electrode up to your forehead and the other to your heart and read your work into the attached funnel mic. If you don’t Feel Something™, then you have no skills and can move on to something else, like pig farming, accounting, or wolf biology.

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