If sentences are pillows, go easy on the ruffles. Try to make it pretty, and it gets ugly. I learned this lesson during my public humiliation in UBC English class for overly grandiose writing.
My Honeyguide Bird
What It's Like
People have been asking me, "What's it like? What's it like, to be doing what you love?"
I think it's a real surprise to some, that I had the nerve to reduce a perfectly stable situation to something more tenuous, uncertain and lower profit.
I'll tell you what it's like.
It's freeing.
It's something special, allowing yourself to do what you love.
