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Article: Abandon the Cap-E Editorial, all ye who enter here: it's up to you to translate vast amounts of information into opinions the average reader can understand.(Writing 101)
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- The Masthead
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- March 22, 2006
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Don't get hung up on writing a Cap-E Editorial. Get hung up on writing.
Something stultifying seems to happen to some writers when they sit down to write An Editorial, Harrumph, Ahem. They take on this phony-baloney air and end up sending readers straight to the comics. They think they have to sound elevated and official and above-the-fray and all that rot--when what they need to sound like is human.
My advice: Don't set out to be an Editorial Writer; be a writer of opinion whose stuff happens to run in the editorial column. Free yourself of the professorial, elbow-patched crapola, and then who knows what weird, wonderful things will happen?
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