How to Write Stunning Sentences
eBook - ePub

How to Write Stunning Sentences

100 Simple Exercises from Beloved Authors to Improve Your Writing Style

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  2. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

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

  1. Introduction
  2. PART ONE:Syntax
  3. John Updike: The Adjectival Sentence
  4. Justin Torres: The Long Sentence
  5. Anne Carson: The Short Sentence
  6. Elizabeth Tallent: Parentheticals and Digressions
  7. Aaron Shurin: The Right-Branching Sentence
  8. Catherine Brady: Time Modifiers
  9. Chad B. Anderson: The Interrogatory
  10. Max Porter: Syntax Variety
  11. PART TWO:Rhythm and Sound
  12. Melanie Rae Thon: Rhythm and Sound
  13. Virginia Woolf: Rhythm
  14. Rachel Cusk:Parallelism and Balance and Series and More
  15. Meredith Alling: Punctuation
  16. Saul Bellow:The Art of Funny
  17. PART THREE: Schemes and Tropes
  18. Elizabeth Alexander:The Power of Repetition
  19. Joseph O’Neill:Similes and Metaphors
  20. Elizabeth Rosner:More Metaphors
  21. Melinda Moustaskis:Ellipses
  22. Caro De Robertis:Ekphrasis
  23. Lauren Groff: Metaphors, Similes, Personification
  24. Toni Morrison: Synecdoche and Metonymy
  25. PART FOUR: Diction
  26. Grace Paley: Le Mot Juste
  27. Doris Lessing: Adjectives
  28. Kevin Barry: Adverbs
  29. James Baldwin: Precise Imprecision
  30. Toni Cade Bambara: Colloquialism
  31. Don DeLillo: Register
  32. PART FIVE: Imagery
  33. Callan Wink: Imagery
  34. Amy Hempel: Minimalism
  35. Lucy Wood: Magical Realism
  36. Haruki Murakami: Surrealism
  37. James Salter: The Unexpected Image
  38. Glossary: Grammar
  39. Glossary: Rhetoric
  40. Further Reading
  41. About the Author
  42. Acknowledgments