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tale that is told of a frustrated novelist. He began with a marvelous first sentence: "Naked, Elaine stood at the window watching John come up the walk.” It was perfect. The sentence had a nice lilt. It held true to the best tradition of the Genre of the Ripped Bodice. Alas, the author then fell into a writer's block and John never made it to the door. Thus the manuscript ended.
For some years I was charged with hiring editorial writers. Applicants sent in samples of their work, and I looked for the first whistle. Let me explain by example. The other evening I fell to reading a suspense yearn by Jonathan Kellerman, "The Web." He was describing a remote island in Micronesia. Seen from a low-flying plane, narrow roads "were coiled like limp shoelaces."
This was on Page 2, barely 500 words into a novel. I said, "Whew!" On Page 3, we meet a boy "as talkative as an all-night disc jockey." On Page
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