For the past year or so, my employer, Independent School Management, has supported wellness initiatives for employees. With this in mind, I proposed starting a small but highly productive vegetable garden that ISM employees would maintain and harvest, an ISM "community garden" on the company's grounds. Here is a synopsis of my proposal to the company CEO.
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Weldon Burge
Freelance Writer/Full-Time Editor/Creator of Web Content
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Bullets and ButterfliesFirst LinesFebruary 5, 2010
Many editors will tell you that, when plowing through a slush pile of freelance submissions, they often never get past the first sentence of a story, much less the first paragraph. Writers may think this unfair, but an editor's instinct about a story is usually dead on -- if the first few lines of a story don't snare your attention, you're not likely to read further.
First lines are important. Consider the following examples of first lines from best-selling authors. (more…) |
Selected WorksGarden Writing
This is a Gardening How-To article about maximizing vegetable garden space for the best production. Also included are links to some of my other Gardening How-To articles on broccoli, hot peppers, and coleus.
This Storey Country Wisdom Bulletin provides practical advice about growing peppers.
Everything you need to know to grow root crops!
This is a National Gardening Association article about growing peas as a fall crop.
This brief article was published in the January 2008 issue of Horticulture magazine. |