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“Walking His Life Away” (31 Longreads in 31 Days, Day Eleven)
A year ago, a good friend send me a copy of Gary Smith’s book, Going Deep, a collection of his longform articles from Sports Illustrated. Smith is a masterful writer who mostly covers sports. But that’s misleading: he writes about people. Some are pro athletes; some never make it to college. He writes about the…
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Great paragraphs: “Mom let her be who she was”
One skill I’ve learned to appreciate is the crafting of really good paragraphs. Sounds simple, but great writers can craft a paragraph with something that lesser writers would use pages to accomplish. So I’m going to start noting and writing about examples of insanely well-written grafs… First up, I noted this amazing graf in Gary…