Vocabulary:
1. Each tugging用力拉?the reader forward until he is hooked, a writer constructs that fateful unit, the “l(fā)ead.”
2.as long as it nudges用肘輕推 his curiosity and tugs拽?at his sleeve.
I tugged his sleeve but he was hooked by the novel and did not respond to me.
3.?I prowled徘徊?through the Museum
4.?We can still visualize the outline, with its Roman numerals (I, II and III), which staked用樁區(qū)分?out the road we?would faithfully trudge跋涉, and its subnumerals (IIa and IIb) denoting lesser paths down which we would briefly poke.?
Do not prowl in front of the trouble, just trudge it.
Reflection:
"Therefore your lead must capture the reader immediately and force him to keep reading."
"The perfect ending should take your readers slightly by surprise and yet seem exactly right."
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