“Several short sentences about writing,” Verlyn Klinkenborg: Do not come in sear
“Several short sentences about writing,” Verlyn Klinkenborg: Do not come in search of warm hugs about the beauty of the process. True to the title, Klinkenborg (best name ever?) offsets each of his sentences like an epic poem in verse. The epic he describes is how epically bad your writing is, and—thank Zeus—how to improve. He returns to the word “notice” over and over, and that’s really it. You’re blowing sentences by not noticing what the sentence itself is doing. You’re over-emphasizing “meaning” at the expense of the vehicle that delivers it. I sense there’s a kind man in there, somewhere, who’s working a side of the street he feels has been neglected by years of misguided education. But in these pages, he’s dedicated to the larger cause of clean, clear, accurate sentences. Not hugs. Stay through to the end, where he gives passages from Joan Didion, Joyce Carol Oates, Cheever, Orwell…and then provides a slew of his students’ clunkers. He asks you to notice. Notice, notice, notice. #book #books @joycecaroloates @verlynklinkenborg, #makethehang #bookstagram #bookworm @strandbookstore #writing #writingcommunity #writer #reading https://www.instagram.com/p/B88_9WWFqOq/?igshid=1ew9xoyt6u9pm -- source link
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