"To me, there are three things we all should do
every day.
Number one is laugh. You should laugh
every day.
Number two is think. You should spend
some time in thought.
Number three is you should have your
emotions move you to tears, could be
happiness or joy.
If you laugh, think, and cry, that’s a heck of a
day."
- Jim Valvano
 If we write REALLY, REALLY WELL, we
can get our readers to do all three of
these things. Sometimes in the same
story.
 But first, we’ve got to write stuff they’ll
read.
Writing Stuff They’ll
Actually Read
How to spice up your stories in 10 easy steps
STEP ONE:
Interview in depth
 We like to forget it, but we’re reporters
first, writers second.
 Get so much stuff that you can’t help but
have too much.
 After you’ve spoken with a subject, you
want to feel like you know them well
enough to tell their life story in a way that
their family would approve.
Here’s a short piece. How much
interviewing do you think it took?
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Who’s that guy? That’s what the copy shop
clerk wanted to know when a customer came
to pick up the funeral photos of Timothy J.
Coughlin. That’s also what his wife, Maura
wanted to know when she first spotted his
“big Irish face” in a downtown bar. People
were drawn to him, even before he opened
his mouth, often to tell a bawdy joke or
display his distinctive vocabulary. (“Great
lair!” he would say to a host.)
But there was plenty of substance to back up
his friendly appearance. When Mr. Coughlin
was not trading securities at Cantor
Fitzgerald, golfing, or taking his children—
Rianne, 4, Sean, 2, and Riley, 9 months
old—to the carousel in Central Park, he was
planning social gatherings.
“I called him a friendship hawk because he
was just so good at circling back and seeing
how friends were doing,” said Frank Coughlin,
one of his three brothers.
Timothy Coughlin, was the kind of man who
gave the towel guy at the gym his start on
Wall Street. The doorman from the
Coughlin’s Upper East Side building was at
the funeral.
“I said something smug about how Timmy
was so generous,” Frank Coughlin recalled.
“He said, ‘No, it wasn’t that. It was that
Timmy was my friend.’”
STEP TWO: Write about
people, not facts
 Statistics etc. suck the life out of stories.
Leave them out wherever possible.
 Facts and statistics are important—but
you get more mileage from them in fact
boxes etc.
 In our body text, we want to tell stories,
not write research papers.
This story could have become a research
paper about runaways or those with
substance problems. Instead, its about a
person and very powerful.
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Every night it was the same routine. Senior Carrie
Semmens brought her knees to her chest as a tear
slipped down her cheek. She sat crouched on a
simple mattress, surrounded by darkness, crying out
of anger and confusion.
She sat in the room at the teen runaway shelter,
The Bridge, night after night, for an entire month this
past summer. After struggling with addiction and
running away from home, she voluntarily checked
herself into the center in Grand Rapids
After doing chores and attending counseling
sessions all day, she would escape to her small
room where she was left alone to contemplate her
life—the one she ran away from and the one she
was trying to rebuild.
“The first three days I was there, I hated
everything and everyone,” Semmens said. “I
was so angry. But then, I took a look at the
kids around me. All they looked forward to
was getting wasted. I realized how good I
had it and it made me want to change my life.
I learned that the hardest part about the
shelter wasn’t dealing with the other kids. It
was dealing with myself—I battled myself
every day.”
After her parents divorce and the suicide of her best friend,
Semmens turned to alcohol and drugs for support. She would
party every night and as a result, her grades began to slip and
she failed all of her classes.
“I definitely hung out with the wrong crowd,” Semmens said.
For a while I thought that I had real friends and that I was really
happy. But that wasn’t the case. I sacrificed my morals in order
to escape my problems.”
Before running away to the shelter, Semmens had lived with
her mother and stepfather. Her mother was struggling with her
own addiction to marijuana and her stepfather was an alcoholic.
“At first, I thought [my stepfather] would be good for her, but
then things behan to change and I realized he had an alcohol
problem. There were fights all the time. I had to go home and
deal with it everyday and that was the hardest part. I never got a
break.”
Mary Jane Evink taught Semmens in her World Religions
class and behan to take notice of her self-destructive behaviors.
When Semmens began to skip class, Evink became worried and
after five days of absence, she called Semmens’ mother.
That’s when Semmens’ mother finally took notice that she had
run away.
“I just knew that it wasn’t like Carrie to just not show up,”
Evink said. “There was something definitely wrong and I felt I
had to do something.”
After receiving counseling at the shelter, Semmens decided to
take control of her life. She moved in with a friend and began to
support herself by working every day at a factory.
“At times, its really hard. I mean, you don’t know how much
you depend on your parents until you’ve lost them,” Semmens
said. “But its okay. Some kids are scared to grow up, but I
really wasn’t. I think that’s because I knew I didn’t have a
choice in the matter.
Semmens is a completely different person than she was a year
ago. As she speaks about her past, she treats the matter with a
calm maturity and acceptance. She realizes that she is not
perfect, but has taken the steps needed to stay healthy.
“I’ve made mistakes and I’m not trying to look like a saint,”
Semmens said. But I’ve managed to keep clean and healthy
since running away. It wasn’t easy—I had to walk away from a
lot of people. And I know without my friends and the support of
my teachers I wouldn’t have made it this far.”
Semmens is now passing all of her classes with As and Bs and
will graduate with her class. She plans on attending Baker
College in order to pursue an associate’s degree in architecture
and is optimistic about her future. She does not plan on letting
drugs and alcohol get in her way this time.
End with a great quote!
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“I still get asked to parties and sure,
sometimes I’ll go,” Semmens said. “ But I go
to hang out—not drink. It’s really hard but I
know I’ll be all right. I just want kids to know
that there is help out there. It’s like through
every dark night there’s a brighter day. You
just have to keep going.”
STEP THREE: Lead strong
 A story is a lot like a blind date—you don’t get
a second chance to make a first impression
 A great lead adds drama
 Find the right way to start a story—don’t be
shy
 You’re not writing for your father’s publication.
Break out of the 5ws and H mold.
Instead of starting like this:
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“Despite a heartbreaking loss in the third
round of the playoffs, the varsity basketball
team had its most successful season in eight
years.”
Try Something Like This
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This is a descriptive lead that captures a very
honest, very powerful moment. It appeared in a
high school yearbook from California.
“So this is how it feels to lose in the playoffs.
Twelve guys who haven’t cried in years, heads in
hands, tears leaking through their fingers. A silence
that echoes. The tear-jerking feeling of missed
opportunity
But even the dreadful finality of the varsity boys’
third-round loss couldn’t mask the most successful
season in six years.”
Which Lead Do You Like Best?
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When local artist Shelly Batts saw a clock
with the face of the moon in a catalogue, she
thought she could do better. So, she made
her own.
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Maria stares down from her perch above the
counter of The Creative Fringe, a downtown
Grand Haven bead store. Her green eyes
gaze across the room as employee Shelly
Batts asks “What time is it Maria?” Maria
doesn’t answer, but Batts seems pleased as
a few customers look up and giggle.
Maria is a clock.
Instead of starting like this:
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Despite playing in a steady rain, the Detroit
Tigers still banged out five home runs in
defeating the Cleveland Indians 17-6.
Try something like this
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Allusion lead
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“Swinging in the rain. Just swinging in the rain.
What a glorious feeling Monday night for the Tigers,
they’re happy again. With six runs right out of the
chute—their biggest inning in four years—the Tigers
started fast and maintained their speed in a soggy,
but satisfying 13-4 victory over the Cleveland
Indians at Jacobs Field.”
STEP FOUR:
Get great quotes and use
them early and often
 Great quotes add impact.
 Quotes give stories pace and momentum
 Wherever possible, its best to tell stories in
the words of the subjects
Here’s an example
Wrestling is an independent sport. Maybe that’s why Wilmar
Esteban picked it up so well.
Esteban started wrestling in eighth grade, the same year he left
his mother, sister and brother in Mexico to live in Grand Haven
with his father. During his freshman year, Esteban’s father
moved to Muskegon, leaving Esteban to choose one more
independent step. He has lived with families residing in Grand
Haven ever since, eventually becoming a member of Assistant
Principal Jack Provencal’s family.
“I don’t know how it all happened,” Esteban said. “My
father moved to Muskegon and I would have had to attend
Muskegon Public Schools. Then Mr. Provencal asked me to
move in and I did.”
Although on the wrestling mat, Esteban meets adversity with
ease, dealing with separation from his family for the last four
years has not been a simple victory.
Four years ago, Esteban packed himself onto a small, padded
airplane seat, waved goodbye to his family through small oval
windows and took his last look at Mexico.
“I did not know how long I’d stay here,” Esteban said. “I
got in school, got involved in sports —that’s how things
happened.”
Even though his future was unclear and most of his family far
away, Esteban was not intimidated.
“I wasn’t scared,” Esteban said. “I was like ‘I don’t know,
discovering new things. That is all. Everything happened
quickly. I said goodbye to my sister and brother, I didn’t
feel sad in that moment. After I got far away it felt strange. I
get sad sometimes. I don’t try to show it. I am sad inside
my heart all the time when I don’t have my family. I try not
to be thinking of it all the time—I can not move it away.”
That day at the airport was not, however, the last time his family
saw him.
“He sent a video home,” Provencal said. “We spent a
week filming him, showing his mom around town,
introducing (his) friends. And he calls. He writes.”
Esteban did not have time to think about his family in Mexico
when he first arrived in Michigan—he was too busy learning the
English language.
“When I first moved here, I didn’t know how to speak
English,” Esteban said. “I knew ‘Good Morning’ and
‘Hello’ and that was all. I was shy and all I’d say was
‘mhmm.’ Once I was riding with my wrestling coach and I
was trying to explain t him about my uncle in Texas. But I
said ‘ankle in Texas.’ He started laughing and he said ‘you
ankle or your uncle?’ That was something funny.”
Even though English left Wilmar scrambling to
adjust, the American people surprised him even
more.
“In Mexico, they didn’t teach you to push
yourself or go harder and in wrestling you got to
go hard,” Esteban said. “Everybody’s tough
and you got to work hard. I always thought
Americans were, how do I say, well, like I was
stronger, but I get spanked sometimes. It taught
me everybody’s the same.”
Esteban not only picked up the English language
in his first couple of months in the United States, but
he also proved himself on the wrestling mat.
As a sophomore, in his second year of wrestling,
Esteban earned a spot on the varsity wrestling team
and finished as a regional qualifier.
“(Esteban) strives to be the best—he always talks about
being a champion,” varsity wrestling coach James
Richardson said. “He is one of the last people to leave the
wrestling room after practice. He puts in extra practice,
extra drills almost every day and I know he applies that to
more than wrestling. He finds success [in wrestling] the
same way he finds success in math class—through hard
work and determination. He has to rely on being mentally
tough, and he is.”
Esteban has continued with his drive for success. In this
season alone, he has already claimed 30 wins.
Not everyone is ecstatic about Esteban wrestling, however.
“My mom doesn’t like it,” Esteban said. She thinks I’ll get
hurt, like scratches and things. She says to me ‘don’t do
that, you’ll get hurt.’ But I think its my body and I don’t
mind it. Moms worry.”
Not only has Esteban taking the wrestling program
by storm, but he has won over the high school as
well. Esteban has been on homecoming court twice
and following him down the hall, one might learn
about a quarter of the school’s names by listening
to his greetings.
“He’s open and willing to work hard,” junior
Josh Gray said. “He can be friends with
everyone.”
Junior Krystal Waters agrees.
“He’s hilarious to talk to,” Waters said. “He
used to come and hang out at our soccer
practices and stuff. It was fun. He’d come to
our team dinners, shoot on me when I played
goalie so I’d have something to do—he’s
great.”
Esteban’s personality affects adults too.
End the story with a slam-bang quote
“I’d describe him as incredible,” Provencal
said. “He is away from his family during
those tender ages when sometimes you need
a hug. He’s a real conscientious guy, selfdirected by needs encouragement too. He’s
a very caring, respectful, honest person.
Sometimes he’ll just say ‘geez.’ That’s one
of his phrases, ‘geez, I can’t believe I’m
here.’”
STEP FIVE:
Paint a picture with words
 Use your five senses
 What does it look like? Sound like?
Smell like? Etc.
 What are a person’s defining
characteristics?
 To get this stuff, you must observe and
whenever possible, conduct the interview
on the subject’s home turf.
Here’s an example. . .
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Penney Aiken sits in front of the huge screen
that dwarfs the desk in the cramped office of
the Michigan Interscholastic Press
Association, simultaneously checking data on
participants in next week’s MIPA Summer
Workshop for high school students and
fighting with a printer that is spitting out
misprinted door tags.
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“Last year I’d come in like three days a week,
work like four hours a day,” said Aiken, her
short brown hair, multiple piercings, jeans
and flip flops pretty much defining the casual
style of the MIPA office.
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In the adjoining office, Jennifer Buske is wedged on
the floor in the doorway, cutting out nametags for all
589 workshop participants. In her black tee-shirt,
jeans and bare feet, she could be the poster child
for office casual. Inches away from her painted
toenails, perched on a small chair is Traci
Carpenter. Buske and Carpenter are the Mutt and
Jeff of the MIPA staff. Buske a brown-haired, brown
eyed journalism major from Syracuse University is
gregarious and giggly. Hardly a sentence goes by
without a laugh. Carpenter, blonde and fair-skinned
is quieter and more reserved. Together they take
on many of the jobs related to production of the
MIPA workshop. Since many of these require space
to set out supplies, the MIPA Office can be a tough
workspace
Describe settings as well as people
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Presumably Buske’s chosen her location in the doorway ,
because it’s the only empty space in the offices, two connected
8x10 rooms on the third floor of the Communication Arts building
at Michigan State University. While the latest indie-rock hits
squawk out of the tinny speakers on one of several small boom
boxes perched atop a computer workstation, a mass of
journalism-related materials spreads up and out from every
square inch of the room. Bulk crates of snack food compete for
floor, wall and shelf space with fuzzy pillows, time sheets, photos,
employees, a small dish of dog food and what appears to be at
least one copy of every training manual and student publication
produced in the last half century.
STEP SIX:
Don’t merely edit, rewrite
 The best stuff rarely comes on the first
draft.
 When you get edits to make, don’t just
change the punctuation and style—keep
playing with your stories until they feel
right.
First draft
While Denawetz has seen much of the world
on a student budget, she doesn’t fit the
stereotype of an unwashed college kid
hauling a grubby rucksack across various
continents.
“I’m the one with the baby blue backpack
and the pink flip-flops,” Denawetz said.
Second Draft—adds an allusion to the
description, strengthening the effect
While Denawetz has seen much of the world
on a student budget, she does so projecting
an image that’s more Elle Woods than
grubby college kid hauling a grubby rucksack
across various continents.
“I’m the one with the baby blue backpack and
the pink flip-flops,” Denawetz said.
Final Draft—builds on the “Legally
Blonde” allusion
While Denawetz, a tiny blonde who looks like
a cross between Reese Witherspoon and
Shirley Temple, has seen much of the world
on a student budget, she does so projecting
an image that’s more Elle Woods than
grubby college kid hauling a battered
rucksack across various continents.
“I’m the one with the baby blue backpack
and the pink flip-flops,” Denawetz said.
Before submitting: READ IT OUT
LOUD
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This will help you find awkward sentences
and check to see if your writing has the
rhythm of spoken language.
If you really want to do it right, tape yourself
reading it and play it back.
STEP SEVEN:
Learn to love words
 “Use the right word, not its second
cousin.” Mark Twain
 Different words have different impacts
 But don’t forget the words of E.B. White:
“Vigorous writing is concise.”
Here’s a nifty story that could improve its
word usage
Hospital feels like war zone
Blood ran out slowly onto white sheets as Dr. Ron O’Gorman
put his gloved finger into the hole in the man’s chest to
determine if a lung had been punctured. “Please stop…no
more!” the man cried loudly, his face contorted with pain. “Oh
my God, it hurts.”
The doctor, deadpan, didn’t stop and continued to move his
finger around inside the wound on the right side of the chest.
Although the man kept yelling and trying to kick his legs, the
patient’s out-of-control trembling had stopped.
It was shortly after 11 p.m. Thursday when
the ambulance containing the badly wounded
patient arrived at Ben Taub General Hospital,
but doctors had already been told he was
coming. Paramedics reported they had to
physically remove the man off a spiked fence
at a downtown hotel after he had stuck
himself trying to climb over the barrier.
“He was just hanging there,” according to a
medical technician.
Blood ran out slowly onto white sheets
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oozed
leaked
seeped
exuded
Ron O’Gorman put his gloved finger
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stabbed
poked
slipped
placed
continued to move his finger
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wiggle
pile-drive
worm
actuate
doctors had already been told he was coming
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contacted
informed
alerted
forewarned
had to physically remove the man off
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evulse
pluck
wrench
extricate
after he had stuck himself
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impaled
pierced
jabbed
perforated
according to a medical technician.
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a medical technician said
proclaimed
snickered
stated excitedly
Rules for WORD CHOICE
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When you have a choice among words,
choose the one with the narrowest meaning.
Use words you understand. Express. Don’t
try to impress.
Be consistent with tone.
Write with your ear. Listen to the sound of
each sentence, paragraph. Use mild
alliteration to establish pace and flow.
STEP EIGHT:
Never let the facts get in the
way of a good story. Embrace
narrative journalism
Think back to lit class (better yet, think about your
favorite movies or TV Shows)— Take the
elements of a story and put them into your
journalistic writing
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Who = Character
What = Plot
Where, When = Setting
Why = Theme
A Great Example
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Why does this story work?
Interesting lead
Great subject
Powerful and deep quotes
Logical, smooth flow
Strong closing
Billy Don Gregory looked down at his right
hand, callused from more bull rides than he
can count.
“It don’t bend like I want it to,” he said.
The reason is that it was nearly ripped off
five years ago when a bull fell on him, jerking
his hand against the rope wrapped around it.
He was left with a nasty scar around most of
his right wrist from surgery to reattach it —
and a desire to get back on another bull.
“I couldn’t see myself not riding bulls,” Gregory
said. “I may be crazy but I’m having fun.”
It was nearly midnight, Oct. 8, 1999 at Billy Bob’s
Texas in Fort Worth when Gregory mounted the bull
that almost cost him his hand. It was the last ride of
the night, and the bull let Gregory know immediately
that it wasn’t going to be an easy ride, he recalled.
The bull bucked several times while still in the chute,
finally rearing back so far that he fell backwards,
penning Gregory on the ground and yanking his
hand against the rope.
“I prayed to God all the way to the hospital to
save my hand,” Gregory said. “I couldn’t
picture myself with a hook on the end of my
arm.”
The immediate prognosis from a team of
doctors at John Peter Smith Hospital wasn’t
good.
“They said my hand couldn’t be saved. I
said, ‘I’ll tell you what. Why don’t you try.’
They tried and did it. I could hug them every
day.”
Finish with a great quote
Doctors told him to stay off bulls for at least three
years. But he was back on them seven months later,
riding left-handed. After two months, he tried it righthanded.
“I’ll have to admit I was a little scared,” he said.
“But once this bull-riding bug gets in your blood, it’s
hard to shake it. My chances of making it to the big
time are not very good now, what with this bum
hand. But I still get a kick out of climbing on the back
of a bull and as long as my wife lets me, I’ll be
riding them.”
STEP NINE:
Open up your writer’s
toolbox
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Anecdote
Dialogue
Simile
Metaphor
Parallel Sentence Structure
Alliteration
Personification
Partial Sentences
Anecdote
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A story that illustrates the big picture. A snapshot that represents the
whole.
James Miller was calling roll in his first-period history class last
month when one of his 14-year old students started shouting, throwing
paper and walking around the room.
The Stockard Middle School teacher’s cue to send him to the office
came when the boy pulled a marijuana cigarette out of his pocket.
But before Miller could fill out the principal’s referral form, witnesses
said, the youth punched him repeatedly in the face, slammed him
against a chalkboard and knocked him out.
A classroom full of stunned eighth-graders looked on as the boy
kicked the unconscious teacher in the chest and fled. Miller was left
with a broken nose, loose teeth, eye damage and bruises. He has been
on medical leave since the attack Jan. 7 at the west Oak Cliff school.
In Dallas and other urban school districts across the nation, the
safety of teachers and principals is a growing concern.
Dialogue
Carrying only a clipboard and a malfunctioning
pen
Judy Coyle raps briskly on the
apartment door. A
moment later, a 16-yearold girl opens it.
“How come you’re not in school?” Coyle asks.
“’Cause I don’t feel good,” she replies.
“I’ve sent you a warning,” Coyle says. “I’m fixing to
go one step further. I can take your mother to court or
you can be in school. Now, y’all don’t have money for
that. I’d hate to bring the police after you — but I will.
“Now I expect to see you in school tomorrow.”
Judy Coyle is on the job. Her silver shield, which she
flashes police-style as she makes her rounds, identifies
her as an attendance officer for the Irving Independent
School District. But the children she tracks down know
her as the truant officer
Internal Dialogue (the stuff going on
inside somebody’s head)
Though they made her dizzy and sick to her
stomach, Lisa smoked because they made
her feel accepted, inside. She chased away
the nagging fears of cancer, justified them by
saying to herself, “I’m just doing this for now.
I won’t get hooked. I can quit any time I like.”
Simile
Johnny Cash was a rare breed, an earthy yet
dazzling poet-artist, a 6-foot-2 man with
crevices like hatchet marks through his
cheeks who sold more than 50 million
records.
NY TIMES 3/6/05
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The man himself has a calm, earnest manner
that takes in much more than it gives out. His
blue eyes seem as big as satellite dishes
Beck's jokey, jivey sound is disarming, like
the patter of a scrawny kid who can't make
the football team but uses wit to insinuate
himself into the in-crowd
Be careful! With similes, it’s a fine line
between being clever and being silly.
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Her vocabulary was as bad as like
‘whatever’
He was as tall as a six foot three inch tree
Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair
after a sneeze
The hailstones leaped from the pavement like
maggots when you fry them in hot grease.
She grew on him like she was a colony of EColi and he room-temperature Canadian
beef.
Metaphor
Ponce de Leon Avenue is a fat boy’s dream.
In one two-block stretch, just north of downtown
Atlanta, the drive-through fast-food restaurants are
door-to-door, and the hungry but very busy people
are bumper-to-bumper. A motorist can purchase
three different brands of fried chicken, grab a
handful of soft tacos, throw a pizza in the back seat,
sample four different nationally advertised
cheeseburgers and slurp down a butter-pecan milk
shake and never get his car out of first gear.
Metaphor
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"She was famine's face--a 3-year-old Eithopian
girl snatched from death and gazing at the world
through exhausted eyes, her emaciated body
wrapped in a white burial shroud.
In 1984, Birhan Weldu's face haunted the Band
Aid rock concert for hunger relief. Today, she is
a healthy college student who represents both
the success of the relief effort and the world's
failure to deal with the causes of famine.
Parallel sentence structure: Repeating a
sentence structure for effect, pace.
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By Dejan Kovacevic, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
For one night and, yes, a good chunk of one morning, they were a
team.
One that had a purpose after 48 games of mostly misery.
One determined to finish this one off after so many close calls.
One that was standing at the top of the dugout, hands linked, hoping
and hopping with nervous energy, all eager to see if Jason Bay's
desperate sprint from third base would pay off.
"It's the kind of moment," reliever Ryan Vogelsong would say later, "that
brings everyone together."
What followed would tear them apart, but only because they had to leap
chaotically over the railing to mob Bay at home plate after he scored the
run that ended one of the Pirates' great games in recent memory, an
18-inning, 8-7 triumph against the Houston Astros earlier today at PNC
Park.
Paralell Sentence Structure
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At 16, she should have been getting her
driver’s license. She should have been
staying out late and worrying about when the
next new episode of The OC would be on.
Instead, senior Christina Treat was
wondering if she would be able to be the
parent her son needed her to be at such a
young age.
Paralell Sentence Structure
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Great? It was amazing by any measure, the
culmination of perhaps the finest semifinal
weekend in NCAA history, three games going
into overtime and this one -- well, this one
squeezing both teams like dishrags, draining
them of everything they had. Anyone who
doubted the Spartans' resolve wasn't
watching. Anyone who doubted their
character wasn't watching. Anyone who
doubted their seniors wasn't watching.
Personification
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Chris Osborne and Gordon Ratcliffe stood on
the front steps of their church, holding hands
and smiling.
The morning clouds have teared up,
sprinkling rain on the church grounds. After
living together for 11 years, the Canadian
men are married. Friends approach, offering
best wishes, gifts, kisses and hugs.
Partial Sentence
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After Jean Wheeler gave birth at age 17, she
didn’t know what to do when her son cried.
Or how to change his diaper. Or when to
switch from milk to cereal.
She learned quickly, though, through the
school’s Pregnancy Education and Parenting
Program.
STEP 10: Read good
examples.
 This gives inspiration.
 The more good stuff you read, the better
you will write.
Some Excellent Resources
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The Radical Write: By Bobby Hawthorne
The Live Albom (any edition): By Mitch Albom
The New York Times (you can register for the
on-line version at www.nytimes.com
Portraits of 9/11/01 –the collected “Portraits
of Death” from the New York Times.
www.freep.com
www.detnews.com
www.mlive.com