Many years ago I read in a book by Ernest Hemingway (Death in the afternoon?) that they key to sitting down at the typewriter (remember them?) and loading a blank sheet of paper is to start with one true sentence, and that the piece would flow from there.
I have followed that advice many many times, writing complex business correspondence and presentations, drafting letters of condolence and all sorts of other occasions when one has to frame up an argument. It really has helped.
Lets see how regularly I stick to the discipline.
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