The Draft

How to Write a Sentence

Be specific. Be human. Make every word count.

Eileen Pollack
Human Parts
Published in
9 min readFeb 5, 2020

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Illustration: Lulu Jiang

Welcome to The Draft, an advice column about writing and life from Eileen Pollack, former director of the University of Michigan MFA Program. We’re here to answer your questions about storycraft, writing, and telling the truth in words.

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Eileen Pollack
Human Parts

Eileen is the author, most recently, of Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman