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Sep.18.2008 The More I Think About Short Sentences ... ... the more I realize I have more thinkin' to do. Here's the first sentence of a novel I just started reading. (The name of the character has been changed.) The play—for which Jane had designed the posters, programs and tickets, constructed the sales booth out of a folding screen tipped on its...	Sep.12.2008 Four Opening Sentences from the New Yorker, Four Opening Sentences from the Atlantic I'm fascinated with sentences. I'm also fascinated with the New Yorker. The latter not necessarily in a good way. And that's all the context I can offer to explain why today I'm asking you to compare some opening sentences from the Atlantic magazine to some from the New Yorker. Here are the first...
Jul.29.2008 Must. Learn. To write. Shorter. Sentences. I've been doing a lot of copy editing in the last year. It's satisfying work. The bad kind of satisfying. The drunk-on-self-righteousness kind of satisfying. The "this sentence is a pile of crap and I and only I can whip it into a work of art but not without first nursing some very unkind...