This book does not contain kernels of wisdom but rather evanescent shards of sentence celebrations. In the time honored tradition of show don't tell, The Fish demonstrates wonderful sentences and their authors in a narrative arc -- beginning, middle, and end -- and lambastes his expected detracto...
It doesn’t matter what the sentences you practice with say; it doesn’t matter what their content is. In fact, the less interesting the sentences are in their own right the more useful they are as vehicles of instruction, because, as you work with them, you will not be tempted to focus on their co...