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A day without work can yield a night without sleep
– Albanian Proverb
One of my literary heroes, and my writing sherpa – the person who has influenced me more than any other when it comes to styling my prose and shaping my fiction – is W. Somerset Maugham. His works, if you don’t know, include
Of Human Bondage,
The Purple Veil,
A Moon and Sixpence, and countless other iconic novels, novellas, short stories and plays. He also was a sage when it came to the business of explaining to writers the essence of writing, including this tidbit:
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Peter is the creator and editor of The Water Front Online, the region’s only news organization dedicated to environmental issues in the Finger Lakes and Upstate New York. Have a tip? Send it to peter@fingerlakes1.com.
For a decade, the Cuomo Administration has narrowly applied state environmental law to a pair of Finger Lakes industrial projects in ways that favor their out-of-state owners at the expense of those most likely to be harmed. The state DEC has not required environmental impact statements from the Greenidge power plant on Seneca Lake or the Cargill Salt Mine on Cayuga Lake despite public concerns about environmental risk.