The Annoying Writing Practice that Writers Should Rethink

The lowly epigraph takes it in the shorts from this nonfiction editor

Sandra Wendel
The Startup
Published in
4 min readJun 18, 2021

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Write On, Inc.

They’re called epigraphs. Remember that term in case you get to buzz in on “Grammatical Stuff” for $1,000 on Jeopardy! You see them in books as a design element at the beginning of chapters.

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Sandra Wendel
The Startup

A picky nonfiction editor who helps authors write, polish, and publish their books. Author: Cover to Cover: What First-Time Authors Need to Know about Editing.