100 Ways to Improve Your Writing (Updated) by Gary Provost
Author:Gary Provost
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-05-27T16:00:00+00:00
Were you a little more interested when I told you the man was a priest? That’s because he became more specific, and you could see him better. Whether I had told you that a senator, a trash collector, or a Lithuanian had entered the room, you still would have found him more interesting than a mere man.
Specific nouns have power. In fact, I recently bought a book because of a specific noun. The name of the book is The Last Good Kiss by James Crumley, and I plunked down my money after reading Crumley’s opening sentence. Read it yourself and see if the same specific noun that forced me to part with my money grabs you.
When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Foreball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.
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