Writing Beautiful Sentences: The Years by Virginia Woolf

Writing Beautiful Sentences: The Years by Virginia Woolf

Writing Beautiful Sentences: The Years by Virginia Woolf It was an uncertain spring. The weather, perpetually changing, sent clouds of blue and of purple flying over the land. In the country farmers, looking at the fields, were apprehensive; in London umbrellas were opened and then shut by people looking up at the sky. But in…

Sentence Analysis of Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Sentence Analysis of Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Deliberate Practice: Something Wicked This Way Comes Today, I will do some sentence analysis of Something Wicked This Way Comes. . What is it about his sentences that makes his prose here so appealing. The seller of lightning rods arrived just ahead of the storm. He came along the street of Green Town, Illinois, in…

Deliberate Practice: Pride and Prejudice. How Jane Austen Writes So Well.

Deliberate Practice: Pride and Prejudice. How Jane Austen Writes So Well.

Deliberate Practice with Rhythm and Music. Deliberate Practice: Pride and Prejudice. I have been doing my own deliberate practice for almost a year by copying out the works of great writers by hand and analysing the beginnings of great stories and working out why the writing sounds so good. Rather than putting it down to…