Comments on: John Updike, a writer remembered. http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/writestuff/2009/02/04/john-updike-a-writer-remembered/ A blog on reporting & writing Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:15:21 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Carla http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/writestuff/2009/02/04/john-updike-a-writer-remembered/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Carla Wed, 18 Feb 2009 20:53:49 +0000 http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/writestuff/?p=111#comment-13 A funny thing happened on the way to the CUNY Research Center's tab... I stopped by your blog on the CUNY main page and clicked on Updike's advice to writers. The bits about a daily quota and improving work habits helped. Oh. And the first sentence is great but I like how the rhythm in this one, quite literally, gives a sense of clapping: "No calling, no whistling, just an ocean of handclaps, minute after minute, burst after burst, crowding and running together in continuous succession like the pushes of surf at the edge of the sand." A funny thing happened on the way to the CUNY Research Center’s tab… I stopped by your blog on the CUNY main page and clicked on Updike’s advice to writers. The bits about a daily quota and improving work habits helped.

Oh. And the first sentence is great but I like how the rhythm in this one, quite literally, gives a sense of clapping: “No calling, no whistling, just an ocean of handclaps, minute after minute, burst after burst, crowding and running together in continuous succession like the pushes of surf at the edge of the sand.”

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