h it should be improved this "Writing is just work," novelist Sinclair Lewis once said. "There's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes $$ it's still just work."

Maybe so$.$ Yet there must be a secret to good writing $$ the kind of writing we enjoy, remember, learn from, and try to imitate. While countless writers have been willing to reveal that secret, only rarely do they seem to agree on what it is