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Verlyn Klinkenborg: Several short sentences about writing (2012, Alfred A. Knopf) 4 stars

Most of what you think you know about writing is useless. It's the harmful debris …

Why are we talking about sentences? Why not talk about the work as a whole, about shape, form, genre, the book, the feature story, the profile, even the paragraph?

The answer is simple. Your job as a writer is making sentences. Most of your time will be spent making sentences in your head. In your head. Did no one ever tell you this? That is the writer's life. Never imaging you've left the level of the sentence behind.

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