Chapter 9, 11.03

Vocabulary:

1. Each tugging用力拉 the reader forward until he is hooked, a writer constructs that fateful unit, the “lead.”

2.as long as it nudges用肘轻推 his curiosity and tugs拽 at his sleeve.

I tugged his sleeve but he was hooked by the novel and did not respond to me.

3. I prowled徘徊 through the Museum

4. We can still visualize the outline, with its Roman numerals (I, II and III), which staked用桩区分 out the road we would faithfully trudge跋涉, and its subnumerals (IIa and IIb) denoting lesser paths down which we would briefly poke. 

Do not prowl in front of the trouble, just trudge it.

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Reflection:

"Therefore your lead must capture the reader immediately and force him to keep reading."

"The perfect ending should take your readers slightly by surprise and yet seem exactly right."

这章讲了开头和结尾，中文讲究凤头豹尾猪肚子，大致相同的写作理念。说实话，读完这章，我能想到的开头只有“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...”看完唐人悦写的后，自惭形愧0.0书到用时方恨少

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附精彩开头结尾集锦：

www.jianshu.com/p/43493f65d527