[stylist] Kurt Vonnegut's 8 rules for writing a great story

[Chris Kuell]

Hey Atty,

I believe Vonnegut worked as a local reporter in Chicago after World War II 
for a while, then as a technical writer, and I remember he worked for Sports 
Illustrated for a little while. Apparently, he was assigned a piece about a 
race horse that jumped a fence and ran away. He couldn't come up with 
anything to write, so he typed 'The horse jumped over the fucking fence', 
turned it in, and quit.

Cat's Cradle was his first published novel, and I think he was 41 or 42 when 
it came out, so you are indeed correct.

chris

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> Thanks Chris, and wasn't he in his 40s when he first started writing too?
>
> From one rule braker to another,
> Atty
>
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