Workshop — First Sentences
+Workshop — First Sentences with Jay Nicorvo
+Starting sentences with “It is…” (or was, etc)
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- Only add a third word — “It was television.” +
- Stretch it out, less than ten words — “It was television, pure and simple, without dispute.” +
- Let it ramble — “It was television, pure and simple, without dispute, and though some may dispute that, I maintain that it stands still as the platonic ideal, a metonym for all shows that come after, the Ur-show that took a genre, a medium, a generation away from tenuous explorations and shoved it without remorse into the world we inhabit today, and one might wonder, should such a thing not have happened, how unfortunate and insipid our lives-in-entertainment might be today.” +