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- - Make meaning early, then let weaker elements branch to the right. Eg: '**Rebel seized control** of the Cap Haiten, Haiti's second....' - Imagine each sentence you write printed on the world’s widest piece of paper. - “Rebels seized control.” ==Think of that main clause as the locomotive that pulls all the cars that follow.== - If the writer wants to create suspense, or build tension, or make the reader wait and wonder, or join a journey of discovery, or hold on for dear life, he can save subject and verb of the main clause until later. As I just did. - Bad Example: "**A bill** that would exclude tax income from the assessed value of new homes from the state education funding formula **could mean** a loss of revenue for Chesapeake County schools." - Eighteen words separate the subject, “bill,” from its weak verb, “could mean,” a fatal flaw that turns what could be an important civic story into gibberish. - Good Example with suspense: "**The stories** about my childhood, the ones that stuck, that got told and retold at dinner tables, to dates as I sat by red-faced, to my own children by my father later on, **are stories of running away.**' - This variation works only when most sentences branch to the right, a pattern that creates meaning, momentum, and literary power. - WORKSHOP id:: 65d682b9-98e5-453e-9ff7-3d7809e17124 - DONE 1. Read through the New York Times or your local newspaper with a pencil in hand. Mark the locations of subjects and verbs. id:: 65d682cb-8c94-4e8a-a1eb-77b8f78fa7f5 - #mindblown. Every sentence starts with subject-verb. Keeping it simple. Easy on eyes and helps to skim. - **Supreme Court Seems Ready to Block** a Biden Plan on Air Pollution - **Several conservative justices were skeptical** of the administration’s “good neighbor” rule on cross-state pollution, meant to protect downwind states from harmful emissions. - **Members of the Supreme Court’s** conservative majority **seemed inclined** on Wednesday to again limit the Biden administration’s ability to protect the environment by temporarily stopping an effort by the Environmental Protection Agency to curtail air pollution that drifts across state lines. - **Such a decision**, expected by June, **would be in keeping** with recent rulings by the court, which has chipped away at the agency’s authority to address climate change and water pollution. - **The new cases concerned** the administration’s “good neighbor” plan. Under the proposal, which initially applied to 23 states, factories and power plants in Western and Midwestern states must cut ozone pollution that drifts into Eastern states. - **The justices appeared** to be divided along familiar lines on whether to block the plan, which directs states to take measures meant to reduce emissions that cause smog and are linked to asthma, lung disease and premature death. - **A ruling halting the plan** would be provisional, as a challenge to it will continue to be litigated in an appeals court and could then return to the Supreme Court. The question for the justices was what should happen in the meantime. Even a temporary loss for the administration could suspend the plan for many months and maybe longer. - **The Clean Air Act gives states an opportunity** to devise their own plans, subject to approval by the E.P.A. Last February, the agency concluded that 23 states had failed to produce adequate plans to comply with its revised ozone standards. The agency then issued its own plan. - DONE 2. Do the same with examples of your writing. id:: 65d682e0-41eb-46bb-8da6-cae2ccbbb4c1 - Copy of Letters/Writing is Hard - -- Paragraph 1 -- - **writing is like regurgitating** ingredients from your stomach and using this **vomit to make** a delicious meal in real time ~~while~~ **your body and mind resists** in the background - Re: Writing is regurgitation art. Displeasing and incoherent mental vomit is refined to an appetizing meal with a soul and a purpose. Every writer must complete this task grimacing and nauseating through the bodily resistance. - As **I started** my **90-90 project** and I have been **finding it difficult** to even sit at the computer as I think about writing. It's like a **body goes** into deep resistantce. I have had thoughts of **canning the entire projects**. background-color:: red - Re: The Writing project has been difficult to sit through. My body resists. My mind wishes the project be suspended. It wonders - maybe it's a not good time, maybe it's not priority, why do I even need to do this thing? - I know this **play of the mind.** It's same one that gets activated when one **starts hitting the gym the first time.** The minds wants **you to quit** ~~and~~ **you find** 1000+ good, rational, factual reasons why that would be a good idea. - Re: This play of mind is familiar to me. It's the voice that whines and nags when you plan to hit the gym. It's the voice that hates discomfort and wants you to quit. - DONE 3. Do the same with a draft you are working on now. id:: 65d682e4-fd83-46c4-8f53-31e213da244f - DONE 4. The next time you struggle with a sentence, rewrite it by placing subject and verb at the beginning. id:: 65d682e9-5031-4494-a16f-baedc7b9e3fa collapsed:: true - Accountalent cancel contract email - Please cancel the engagement contract for Tax year 2023 between Accountalent and Trial and Error, Inc. At our current stage, this engagement is not a good fit for us. Please let me know the status of our DE Franchise Tax. As per earlier communication, we were informed about a $50 fine added due to a failed transaction. Additionally, I provided my feedback on the original thread on how this could be avoided from a process standpoint. Let me know what else you would need from us. Thank You, Sid - DONE 5. For dramatic variation, write a sentence with subject and verb near the end. id:: 65d682eb-45f6-4c63-b1e1-96341d6790fc collapsed:: true - For the Tax year 2023 between Accountalent and Trial and Error, Inc, please cancel the engagement contract. At our current stage, it's not a good fit for us to have this engagement. The status of DE Franchise Tax status, please let me know that. Due to a failed transaction a $50 fine was added and we were informed as per earlier communication. Additionally, the feedback on our confusion and expectation was provided on the original thread. What else you would need from us you can let me now. Thank you, Sid - Hah #ChatGPT did it better. I see. It's about the #subject - At our current stage, this engagement is not a good fit for us, so please cancel the engagement contract for Tax year 2023 between Accountalent and Trial and Error, Inc. Regarding our DE Franchise Tax status, we were informed about a $50 fine added due to a failed transaction, as per earlier communication. Additionally, on our confusion and expectations, I provided my feedback on the original thread. Let me know what else you would need from us. Thank you.