
How to Write Stunning Sentences
100 Simple Exercises from Beloved Authors to Improve Your Writing Style
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How to Write Stunning Sentences
100 Simple Exercises from Beloved Authors to Improve Your Writing Style
About this book
You’ve got a great story, but do you have great sentences?
Stylish sentences have their own powerful energy that mesmerizes and even rearranges a reader’s world. Think of this book as a private lesson with Nina Schuyler — award winning author and professor of creative writing — featuring guest appearances by the masters, including James Baldwin, Grace Paley, Anne Carson, Justin Torres, and Toni Morrison. They’ve arrived to show you the mechanics of their magic.
Featuring 31 essays and over 100 writing prompts, How to Write Stunning Sentences is the best way to practice writing sentences with style. The second edition of this indispensable guide includes seven new essays and more prompts.
Sibylline Press is proud to announce its new imprint, Sibyl Writing Craft, dedicated to providing definitive titles on writing craft and the book business for writers.
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Table of contents
- Introduction
- PART ONE:Syntax
- John Updike: The Adjectival Sentence
- Justin Torres: The Long Sentence
- Anne Carson: The Short Sentence
- Elizabeth Tallent: Parentheticals and Digressions
- Aaron Shurin: The Right-Branching Sentence
- Catherine Brady: Time Modifiers
- Chad B. Anderson: The Interrogatory
- Max Porter: Syntax Variety
- PART TWO:Rhythm and Sound
- Melanie Rae Thon: Rhythm and Sound
- Virginia Woolf: Rhythm
- Rachel Cusk:Parallelism and Balance and Series and More
- Meredith Alling: Punctuation
- Saul Bellow:The Art of Funny
- PART THREE: Schemes and Tropes
- Elizabeth Alexander:The Power of Repetition
- Joseph O’Neill:Similes and Metaphors
- Elizabeth Rosner:More Metaphors
- Melinda Moustaskis:Ellipses
- Caro De Robertis:Ekphrasis
- Lauren Groff: Metaphors, Similes, Personification
- Toni Morrison: Synecdoche and Metonymy
- PART FOUR: Diction
- Grace Paley: Le Mot Juste
- Doris Lessing: Adjectives
- Kevin Barry: Adverbs
- James Baldwin: Precise Imprecision
- Toni Cade Bambara: Colloquialism
- Don DeLillo: Register
- PART FIVE: Imagery
- Callan Wink: Imagery
- Amy Hempel: Minimalism
- Lucy Wood: Magical Realism
- Haruki Murakami: Surrealism
- James Salter: The Unexpected Image
- Glossary: Grammar
- Glossary: Rhetoric
- Further Reading
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments