In class we are reviewing the inverted pyramid style of writing, and as i was thinking earlier this evening about teaching it i found a great explanation by Jennnifer Dukes Lee.
"In essence," Lee says, "we are giving away the ending in the opening paragraph, reversing what storytellers have done for centuries when they stack facts chronologically. It goes against our instincts as writers."
Lee lays the style out so directly and succinctly. I only aim to speak so clearly.
Lee titles herself "A storyteller. Grace dweller." That is a graceful description.
Most of Lee's other posts are quite Christian oriented. I scrolled across this post from Romans 8:1 just as, on Netflix, Harvey Keitel goes through an extreme and shocking state of intoxicated gnosis in Bad Lieutenant. Sync!
"In essence," Lee says, "we are giving away the ending in the opening paragraph, reversing what storytellers have done for centuries when they stack facts chronologically. It goes against our instincts as writers."
Lee lays the style out so directly and succinctly. I only aim to speak so clearly.
Lee titles herself "A storyteller. Grace dweller." That is a graceful description.
Most of Lee's other posts are quite Christian oriented. I scrolled across this post from Romans 8:1 just as, on Netflix, Harvey Keitel goes through an extreme and shocking state of intoxicated gnosis in Bad Lieutenant. Sync!
It makes sense, though. The movie is about grace and redemption.
Can the Bad Lieutenant find redemption? The very question troubles him to his core.
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