Constance Hale Quotes
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Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man…
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Verbose is not a synonym for literary.
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I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the alphabet!…
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Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand…
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Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.
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Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of…
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A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the…
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Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important…
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There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences…
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Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point…
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Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them…
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In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader…
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Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.
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The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.
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