Spunk And Bite
September 17, 2008
I've found the section on colors inspiring, like a dandelion popping yellow in spring. The many online resources for word-a-day and reference will be helpful, once I get around to checking them out.
Also helpful was seeing permission to do things I do already; like using semi-colons brazenly. Or sentence fragments.
There are plenty of caveats to warn not to go overboard and throw the baby out with the bathwater lest one's writing suffer, decline, or go to the dogs.
If you have some coin and are inclined to get another book on writing, you could do much worse than this one.
Author: Arthur Plotnik
Published: 2007
I've found the section on colors inspiring, like a dandelion popping yellow in spring. The many online resources for word-a-day and reference will be helpful, once I get around to checking them out.
Also helpful was seeing permission to do things I do already; like using semi-colons brazenly. Or sentence fragments.
There are plenty of caveats to warn not to go overboard and throw the baby out with the bathwater lest one's writing suffer, decline, or go to the dogs.
If you have some coin and are inclined to get another book on writing, you could do much worse than this one.
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I've always love my
I've always love my fragments. Nobody is gonna take them from me!
They'll have to pry them from
They'll have to pry them from our cold, dead hands.
I've just recently given
I've just recently given myself permission to break the rules in bold ways. It's where life and freshness in writing resides.
Which Rules?
Are you comfortable sharing them here? Are these rules others recommended? Restrictions you put on yourself?
Mostly I play with cadence.
Mostly I play with cadence. Fly in the face of my internal English teacher and audition commas and dashes in places I want to emphasize or echo.
I took a deep edits class from Margie Lawson that highlights about 25-30 stylistic tricks used by the heavy hitters on the NYTimes list that most people are unaware of. When I realized how much they were breaking the rules the the amazing effect it had on drawing the reader in, the same tricks started seeping into my own voice. I'd love to share them with you sometime. You can Google ML and find out more about her.
Interesting
Thanks for sharing, L.A.
And for those interested here is Margie Lawson's website.
"Also helpful was seeing
"Also helpful was seeing permission to do things I do already; like using semi-colons brazenly. Or sentence fragments."
Yes; me too.
I'm preaching to the choir.
I'm preaching to the choir.
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