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It was tornado time in North Carolina in April. The Raleigh News and Observer sent a reporter to Zebulon to write a color piece about a twister there, and the newspaper routinely provided a copy of the story to The Associated Press.
At the AP bureau, copy editor Randall Cha.se made some revisions. As the story went put on the AP wire, it began: “Jessie Adams, his wife and two children, were sitting down for dinner when they saw horse fly past the window of their mobile home.”
It was a beautiful lead. And you know what? That lovely lead, I discovered. had been buried in the 15th paragraph in the original story.
From a lifetime’s experience I can tell you that it often works that way. A writer has trouble getting into piece of work. The sentences won’t flow, the right words won’t come, the whole thing is going badly. Then the overcast syntax slowly moves on and a sun of creativity comes out. Behold: There in the 15th graf is the lead, just waiting to be put where it plainly belongs.
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