“I lived one block from a druggie who killed his girlfriend, buried her on the property, then dug her up again.”
If you write for C/D, every word you submit will be scrutinized by the managing editor, or “M.E.,” who, after reading this very sentence, will ask whether the word “submit” might be replaced by “compose” and whether the word “scrutinized” might be replaced by “considered” and who will further point out that this sentence contains 89 words and might more profitably be replaced entirely by a telling anecdote or a direct quote, and, by the way, might you soon consider an occupation in which writing figures not at all?
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