The Tough Troutfish Templars: Analysis

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The question is, “What would capture attention and be a cool and very visual way to begin a movie or a book and, more specifically, my autobiography?

Stylistically, the latter is often considered to be more complicated. Besides, in the labyrinth of “opinions,” I encountered opinions that were diametrically opposed to one another, and there were even irrelevant statements, when referring to rigidity, chronology, points of view, and the choice between first- and third-person writing, between what to highlight and what to hide, and between whom to present to the reader and whom to maintain absent? (59-word phrase) These questions I already resolved forcefully. However, the “beginning or opening, the first line or page,” which serves to engage
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They caused me a lot of confusion, the loss of energy and precious time, frustrations, and irritations. I was always alert for their first five words to detect, mark, and add the Troutfish's name to my list. Impeding, they stubbornly would continue causing frustrations and inferiority complexes with their vacuum nonsense, useless slogans, and preaching. I mean, shaking off their ignorance with meaningless in terms of “what” to do instead of proving, the “how” action-result*. They always left me behind in the cold — and still do — with their empty resolution-tails or tailenders, flapping their ignorance against my head. That is how I cataloged part of the society in my childish green language. They consist of the “tailflappers, leftwalkers, reversethinkers, opposite empty-opinion holders, chronic antipodean doers.” It was a way of expressing myself in private writing, and I still enjoy using it. When I first started writing, I soon became overburdened with avalanches of unrelated recording from all periods of life, countries, situations, and ages. My principal task during the years became jotting down daily (and waking up at night to do so) notes and voice recordings. Since I started writing to share the joy, some ten years ago, I have consulted a lot of books, brainstormed, discussed and interviewed a lot of people, and attended contradictive training courses about writing. I continue to be confronted with and receive many suggestions, opinions, recommendations, and irrelevant corrections by mediocre (professional) proofreaders. Added to that, the endless number of pieces of advice about: “WHAT to do,” instead of a single step-by-step “HOW to do it." Also, there have been endless disagreements and discussions about empty arguments and opinions. The only exception was Brian, my first “English language screener and cleaner,”

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