Vary sentence length. Most people write a plodding eight to ten-word sentence. If you tend to write a long sentence, make sure to have some short ones in there to add punch. If you tend to write short sentences, link a few together as dependent clauses, so the reader doesn’t feel like the armies are marching, and zzzz….
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✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Your Intuition Knows
“Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.” ~
Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Reason to Write
“I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.” ~
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Good Poem
“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone’s knowledge of himself and the world around him.” ~
🖋 Writers’ Wisdom ~ Trust Your Writing
“No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Watch Where You Place Your Commas
“Making love to me is amazing. Wait, I meant: making love, to me, is amazing. The absence of two little commas nearly transformed me into a sex god. ” ~
Writers’ Wisdom ~ Go for Broke
“Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things–childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves–that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.” ~ Salmon Rushdie
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom: The How to Write Rule
“There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it’s like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
Writers’ Wisdom ~ A Time to be Wary
“If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.” ~
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Reality of Writing
“What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life.” ~
