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Tuesday, September 27, 2005

On writing and meat products

Posted by on September 27 at 15:01 PM

One thing I love about being an editor is reading all the different ways people have to phrase things. It’s great when a writer finds a particularly concise and unique way to express a point—or, even better, to make me laugh. In working with writer Chris Estey on an upcoming CD review, he had this witty little aside to dealing with run-on sentences: “Sometimes I forget that a sentence isn’t like a sausage you’re trying to stuff all the meat into all at once.”