The power of sentence length

Jul 10, 2022 | Blog, Writing, Writing Craft

  Here’s a question you might not see often: How long are your sentences? Do you write really long, descriptive sentences that give your reader a lot of information so they know just where they are, what your character is doing and how they’re feeling? Or are...

Anticipating What’s Going to Happen Next

Jul 11, 2021 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

There was a fascinating article by Donald Maass on pacing recently on Writer Unboxed – if you don’t know the website, I highly recommend it, they’ve got really good blog posts. Maass pointed out a couple of really interesting things that got me thinking. First, he...