Smart Blogger

AUGUST 25, 2023

Without it, you risk constructing a story that’s more like a house of cards, teetering and ultimately collapsing under its own weight. Crafting mood involves an array of literary devices — think of the choppy sentences in a suspenseful scene or the flowy prose in a romantic moment.

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The Subversive Copy Editor

JANUARY 1, 2022

The grain of truth: “Said” followed by a pronoun (“said she”) is more at home in poetry or highly lyrical prose. But when we can’t know or don’t care who dunnit, an active construction rarely improves things: Someone announced the award before I arrived. Why it’s not true: “Because it’s demonstrably silly,” said the copyeditor.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 29, 2015

You love prose, you love language, you love how a perfectly-constructed sentence can say so much more than just letters put in order. If you’re unlike me, however, you love to use lots of words, and write mountains of prose. If you’re anything like me, you love words.

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Article Writing

AUGUST 10, 2022

Rest assured, they all want hard-hitting journalism – or Truman Capote-style prose – but are willing to spend no more than $20 on it. More important is their ability to hit the mark audience-wise, weave a good story, and take constructive feedback and apply it. Download Here our 10 fundamental marketing questions.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 8, 2022

One reason revision so often goes awry for authors is the temptation to focus first on perfecting the prose. Fine-tuning the verbiage—have you conveyed the story in prose that’s lean, elegant, precise, and unique? Then you repeat that process area by area. Work from the foundation up. Line edits. What makes it effective—or not?

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Grammarly

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Chiasmus is defined as a literary device in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order. Chiasmus in this casual prose might create vivid imagery , but it also comes off as overdramatic. Chiasmus (pronounced kee-az-muss ) is a two-part phrase where the second part mirrors the first.

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Grammarly

APRIL 3, 2023

As words take on new meanings and new sentence constructions become commonplace, “the rules” often take some time to catch up. Clarity is the goal When you break grammatical rules, it should be in the service of making your words, sentences, or prose clearer, more accurate, or more engaging.

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Smart Blogger

AUGUST 23, 2023

While your prose may be worthy of the Nobel Prize in Literature, an amateurish cover will stop potential readers in their tracks. Constructing a solid author website replete with a blog and mailing list is your foundation. Plus, your story could be precisely the local interest piece an editor is searching for.

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Smart Blogger

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Poets use anastrophe as an easy rhyme scheme in poetry , and prose writers use it to sound… wiser? Chiasmus The Latin word “chiasm” refers to a “crossing,” so it makes sense that a chiasmus is a literary device where words, grammar constructions, and/or concepts are “crossed,” aka reversed. What are Literary Devices?

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 29, 2023

So we found that as you get better working with it, it can write more and more of the prose for you, in your voice and style. You're creating the structure, bringing the elements together, and then directing its construction. They're not tuned for fiction, but they're going to be able to write prose for you.

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ProBlogger

MAY 9, 2017

Your readers begin to construct a person based on the voice of your blog. In other words, people want content that’s constructive and applicable to their lives, not vague prose that lacks purpose. Did you know that 94 percent of people who share blog posts do so because they think it’ll be helpful to others?

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Susan Greene

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Website for a Seattle construction company, about 10 pages . I kept the length and all the nonsensical, pointless prose about the elephant. If they offer constructive advice, and you think their points are valid, then take the necessary action. I certainly wouldn’t be including this brochure in my portfolio.

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