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…
How do you write beautiful sentences? Let’s see if we can analyse one with the aid of AI.
ChatGPT has come with a lot of hype. It’s amazing. It can write fiction. But it can’t do it well without your help. One thing it can do, with direction, is produce the first draft of your novel, that you can then polish.
Are you looking for ways to take your writing to the next level? Rhetorical devices are a powerful way to add depth to your writing and engage your readers. Check out this article to learn about the most effective rhetorical devices and how to use them to take your writing to the next level.
10 Useful Apps For Writers 10 Useful Apps for Writers? You never know when you will need to paraphrase a paragraph. These days, someone has already written most everything about everything. When you’re doing your research, you will depend on these secondary research for non-fiction. But you don’t want to use their words!. You need…
The sea is high again today, with a thrilling flush of wind. In the midst of winter you can feel the inventions of spring. A sky of hot nude pearl until midday, crickets in sheltered places, and now the wind unpacking the great planes, ransacking great planes… I have escaped to this island with a…
Ray Russell’s Sardonicus. Deliberate Practice For Authors.
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 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…
Here we begin our analysis of the first part of Moby Dick. What makes the writing so good? What techniques does Melville use that please his readers so much?