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Five Tips to Make Your Writing Sparkle

Paul Gillin

Storytelling is the oldest form of human communication and the most instinctively effective. This gut-wrenching 8,700-word feature story in the Washington Post won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009. The following paragraphs went on to tell about an injured and embittered veteran who discovered a game that gave his life new purpose.