Everything I Learned About Writing Came After Journalism School

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"A few years after completing a bachelor's degree in journalism and finally landing a writing job, I realized that I knew nothing about writing. I could compose complete sentences and I was trained in the style of finding the who, what, where and why in a story and then piecing it together in an inverted pyramid. The most important aspect of the story should be in the first two to three sentences.Instructors were always careful to point out that nobody reads past the first paragraph anyway, so make sure what needs to be said is said before they are gone. This fact is only aggravated by the Internet and its multitude of shiny links waiting to be clicked. If my instructors are right, the majority of readers who clicked on this article are now long gone by the time this sentence is complete."

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