I would read the same paragraphs over and over, and pretty much cried about it".
Rahm called that morning, but with a smile in his voice: "Hey, I loved your first four paragraphs!" Over the summer, I wrote a tough column wondering if Obama had the tenacity to fight a long war in Afghanistan.
But he's always working on something: transferring the notes he's taken on matchbooks, hotel envelopes, and paper scraps into cahiers, scribbling and typing sentences and paragraphs over and over, honing the sentiments.
Roberto read the paragraph over my shoulder.
For me, perhaps the most important section of the piece was the history of the job and specifically this paragraph: Over the years, some clear patterns about what kind of person succeeds in the job have emerged.
Beginning with the manuscript of "The Names," written in the early eighties, he began consistently to type each paragraph over and over, often on its own page, so that within a draft a paragraph may appear a dozen times on a dozen sheets, as he works it to his satisfaction.
Oz manages to churn out so much in part because he has assistants help with brainstorming, background material and more, and because he is often recycling and repackaging information from one format in another, a paragraph here reading like an anagram of the paragraph over there, the same set of skin-moisturizing and metabolism-boosting tips farmed out in myriad directions.
And I was ecstatic to have books, but I would spend some days reading the same paragraph over and over again, not being able to understand anything, and just hurling it at the wall in frustration".
CUTE DOG AT THE END, THOUGH! - It's got to be a little boring to rewrite this paragraph over and over again: "A new national poll indicates the race for the Republican presidential nomination remains wide-open, with none of the probable or potential GOP White House contenders above 20percentt, according to a new national poll".
Often, we will find ourselves reading the same paragraph over and over again, because auditory processing interfered with the processing of the visual input.
(The sentence suggested is a good one for practice because it is a pan-gram, meaning that it's a phrase that contains all of the letters of the English alphabet).. Another way: Find a small paragraph and practice writing the paragraph over and over again.
