In this article, Hassan Osman curates 5 excerpts from Gary Provost’s “100 Ways to Improve Your Writing”. You can put into practice the presented advice when line editing . I especially appreciate how Provost, through Osman, reminded me that sentence length and clause order emphasize parts of a text.
I came across this advice once before, when watching The Craft of Writing Effectively, a talk given by Lawrence McEnerney, director of the University of Chicago’s writing program. Sidenote: I can’t recommend that talk enough.
Sounds like a great resource. I’d never heard of this, but have heard of many of these lessons. Although not the one about “writing music” by varying sentence length, and how sentence length affects how you read it.
I’m checking out the talk you recommended right now. :)
