Spunk & Bite: A Writer's Guide to Bold, Contemporary Style by Arthur Plotnik

Author:Arthur Plotnik [Plotnik, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Non-Fiction, on kindle, Reference, Writing & Grammar
ISBN: 9780375723353
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2008-12-17T07:00:00+00:00

A CERTAIN SOMETHING

Speaking of hernia, in my life as an editor I hefted no few truckloads of nonfiction submissions; and like other editors who have seen every earnest and devious attempt to grab attention in an opening, I tended to appreciate those efforts that seemed effortless and yet had something that left a bite mark. What can that something be? One fetching quality is sincerity: a sense that what follows the opening will come from the heart—whether the heart be desolate or overflowing. It worked long ago for St. Augustine, who in the opening of Book III of The Confessions revealed the conflicted state of his passions:

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