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…mehr
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.
Revered writing instructor Nina Schuyler is a former professor at University of San Francisco, and currently teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies, Book Passage, and Sibyl Writing Craft. She also facilitates the popular Stunning Sentences Substack. Her fiction has received accolades as well and includes, In This Ravishing World, and the novels, Afterword, The Translator, and The Painting. Her short stories have been widely published and honored. She lives in San Francisco, CA.
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How to Write Stunning Sentences By Nina Schuyler TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Part One: Syntax 1. John Updike: The Adjectival Sentence 2. Justin Torres: The Long Sentence 3. Anne Carson: The Short Sentence 4. Elizabeth Tallent: Parentheticals and Digressions 5. Aaron Shurin: The Right-Branching Sentence 6. Catherine Brady: Time Modifiers 7. Chad B. Anderson: The Interrogatory 8. Max Porter: Syntax Variation Part Two: Rhythm and Sound 9. Melanie Rae Thon: Rhythm and Sound 10. Virginia Woolf: Rhythm 11. Rachel Cusk: Parallelism and Balance and Series and More 12. Meredith Alling: Punctuation 13. Saul Bellow: The Art of Funny Part Three: Schemes and Tropes 14. Elizabeth Alexander: The Power of Repetition 15. Joseph O’Neill: Similes and Metaphors 16. Elizabeth Rosner: More Metaphors 17. Melinda Moustakis: Ellipsis 18. Caro De Robertis Ekphrasis 19. Lauren Groff: Metaphors, Similes, and Personification 20. Toni Morrison: Synecdoche and Metonymy Part Four: Diction 21. Grace Paley: Le Mot Juste 22. Doris Lessing: Adjectives 23. Kevin Barry: Adverbs 24. James Baldwin: Precise Imprecision 25. Toni Cade Bambara: Colloquialism 26. Don DeLillo: Register Part Five: Imagery 27. Callan Wink: Imagery 28. Amy Hempel: Minimalism 29. Lucy Wood: Magical Realism 30. Haruki Murakami: Surrealism 31. James Salter: The Unexpected Image Glossaries: Grammar Rhetoric Further Reading
How to Write Stunning Sentences By Nina Schuyler TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Part One: Syntax 1. John Updike: The Adjectival Sentence 2. Justin Torres: The Long Sentence 3. Anne Carson: The Short Sentence 4. Elizabeth Tallent: Parentheticals and Digressions 5. Aaron Shurin: The Right-Branching Sentence 6. Catherine Brady: Time Modifiers 7. Chad B. Anderson: The Interrogatory 8. Max Porter: Syntax Variation Part Two: Rhythm and Sound 9. Melanie Rae Thon: Rhythm and Sound 10. Virginia Woolf: Rhythm 11. Rachel Cusk: Parallelism and Balance and Series and More 12. Meredith Alling: Punctuation 13. Saul Bellow: The Art of Funny Part Three: Schemes and Tropes 14. Elizabeth Alexander: The Power of Repetition 15. Joseph O’Neill: Similes and Metaphors 16. Elizabeth Rosner: More Metaphors 17. Melinda Moustakis: Ellipsis 18. Caro De Robertis Ekphrasis 19. Lauren Groff: Metaphors, Similes, and Personification 20. Toni Morrison: Synecdoche and Metonymy Part Four: Diction 21. Grace Paley: Le Mot Juste 22. Doris Lessing: Adjectives 23. Kevin Barry: Adverbs 24. James Baldwin: Precise Imprecision 25. Toni Cade Bambara: Colloquialism 26. Don DeLillo: Register Part Five: Imagery 27. Callan Wink: Imagery 28. Amy Hempel: Minimalism 29. Lucy Wood: Magical Realism 30. Haruki Murakami: Surrealism 31. James Salter: The Unexpected Image Glossaries: Grammar Rhetoric Further Reading
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