Friday, May 17, 2013
I once got a call from the construction manager of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay
Bridge improvement program, complimenting me on the 2,000-word article I'd
written about the project's structural engineering challenges. He asked where I
studied engineering and I told him "Google." I once ghost-wrote a
100-page manual on golf tips based on a pile of scribbled notes from a famously alcoholic golf pro. After it published, he asked if I wanted to get together to play a
few holes, and I told him I never played a game of golf in my life. All of
which to say that if there's one thing in this world I know how to do, it's
write copy. It's what I do. So will someone please explain to me why -- why,
why, why -- can I not write two freaking paragraphs describing my novel to a
literary agent?
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