This week's exercise is to create a complex sentence within a paragraph prompt.
Nov 16, 2020
3 min
There are short sentences and long sentences and simple sentences and complex sentences. This week we discuss why and how to use complex sentences.
Nov 15, 2020
8 min
Pauses serve specific functions in sentences. This exercise will help you identify them.
Nov 8, 2020
4 min
Commas are the bane of many new writers. We know the rules, but the rules often mess up how a sentence sounds. Can we break this rule? What do pauses in sentence do, anyway? This week we discuss how to shape the rhythm of a sentence using pauses.
Nov 7, 2020
11 min
This week's writing exercises cover simile, metaphor, and rhythm in terms of paragraph construction.
Nov 6, 2020
6 min
This episode goes over the basic elements of poetic prose and how they can be used to create a more powerful experience for your readers.
Nov 1, 2020
13 min
An exercise to go over the effective and appropriate use of run on sentences and sentence fragments as part of paragraph construction.
Oct 26, 2020
4 min
This episode goes over the nature of breaking grammatical rules at the sentence level--the when and why. Specific examples of run-on sentences and sentence fragments are examined.
Oct 25, 2020
9 min
What role does the sentence play as you are writing your story? What are the important goals it achieves? This week we look at the role of the sentence as we begin a series of episodes on sentence construction.
Oct 18, 2020
6 min
In this episode Jake presents four short exercises to provide a better understanding the goal of writing a paragraph.
Oct 14, 2020
6 min
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