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Tag: Writing Tips

You had one job to do…

Posted on November 3, 2013November 3, 2013 By Brody No Comments on You had one job to do…

Few things get my eye twitching like I’m Chief Inspector Dreyfus in “The Pink Panther” than a lead in a newspaper article like this:

“Fifty people gathered together at GreenSpacePark on Saturday for the Shiny Happy Music Festival.”

It’s not that an opening sentence such as this is technically wrong. The problem instead is that it’s a cop-out that cheats the reader (and the writer) of whatever the actual story might be.

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