Given the title of the link, I approached the article with intent. I answered the question "What does the opening line do for me?" before continuing. Here are m

Given the title of the link, I approached the article with intent. I answered the question "What does the opening line do for me?" before continuing. Here are my results: * It is straight forward and obviously relates to the title, giving me the impression "An article about writing by someone who may actually know about it". * It piqued my curiosity: "Is 25 young to be doing this job?" "I bet this was formative... how so?" "WTF is rewrite editing?" * It nicely sets a tone of "here's some experience for you to chew on" (and the rest of the article keeps it decently. Note: my opening sentence is a poor mimicry of calinet6's opener and of TFA's opener. Seems I need some practice :)