This may sound goofy but I spend off-moments
looking at headlines in newspapers, magazines.
At one time I had to write them myself. Let me tell
you, it wasn’t easy.
Take a magazine. You’d have several pages
of copy and you must capture the essence of
the article in a three or four word headline.
Some writers I ‘ve worked with were good at it.
They’d see them sometimes with eyes closed.
A smile would come on and they’d jot down exactly
what was needed.
Writer’s comment: There are rare moments when
you surprise yourself and do the same thing. Then
again a headline might catch you off-guard.
I found one recently in a Toronto newspaper’s
opinion page. It came out of the blue.
Clarke is not the problem, the system is
Wow! I go along with that. In spades.
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