Playwright Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg says some of the best writing advice she ever received was in a workshop for attorneys on how to write a good legal brief: Start with the person, the instructor said.
“If I start my story with the crime, I’ve already lost the judge; I’ve already lost the prosecutor,” she recalls learning. She incorporated that idea into her own work. “It’s about not looking at these people as their crimes, but looking at them as people.”
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