Constance Hale

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting.…

— Constance Hale

Writers today must navigate the shifting verbal currents of the post-Gutenberg era. When does jargon end and a new vernacular begin? Where's…

— Constance Hale

I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter…

— Constance Hale

Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice…

— Constance Hale

Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence…

— Constance Hale

Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

— Constance Hale

Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and…

— Constance Hale

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

— Constance Hale

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should…

— Constance Hale

Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

— Constance Hale

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to…

— Constance Hale

Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs…

— Constance Hale

Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle…

— Constance Hale

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out…

— Constance Hale

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

— Constance Hale