Smart Blogger

JUNE 6, 2023

Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art blends prose with comic art to deliver a compelling narrative about the art of comics. Rhyming it Out: Blend Poetry into Prose Incorporating poetry into your prose isn’t about making every line rhyme. The possibilities are endless!

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Jane Friedman

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Or if you’re typing, remind yourself that this mediocre prose is filler and you’ll clean it up later. My second novel takes place in Paris, so instead of picking apart my florid prose about the City of Lights, my readers are already onboard for descriptions of a foreign place. Remember your community.

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Smart Blogger

DECEMBER 9, 2022

But adverbs rarely make your prose sound better. If those verbs work a little harder, we can make the prose much more incisive: James strode across the street, dodging a cyclist as he pondered his conversation with William. No lazy writing, no heavy dose of adverbs – just clear, engaging prose. Do they grab your interest?

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Make a Living Writing

JUNE 14, 2023

Negative tone words can be weaved into prose in order for a particular situation or feeling to stand out in the reader’s mind. To Enhance Descriptive Language One of the biggest benefits of using negative tone words is the ability to elevate your prose and increase its effectiveness.

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Grammarly

APRIL 27, 2023

Just like we use paragraphs in prose, and verses in songs, stanzas are units that give a poem structure. A verse is any metrical unit of poetry—whether a single line or the entire poem—and can also be used to differentiate between poetry and prose. It is equivalent to a paragraph in prose. There are many types of stanzas.

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The Write Life

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Mastering writing with sensory language can elevate your prose, help your audience empathize with your characters, and create an overall more engaging story. As with any effective prose, the real writing happens in the revisions. Clean prose with intentional sensory language is like a good book cover. Don’t rush it!

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Grammar Underground

MAY 15, 2023

With regularity” may be the worst assault against my prose yet. They can turn prose into a night of the living dead.” But sometimes I wear the other hat, the writer’s hat. And in that role, I am, from time to time, the victim of editorial malpractice. So what’s so bad about “with regularity”? A number of things.

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Make a Living Writing

AUGUST 7, 2023

Cracking the code of technical jargon and translating it into user-friendly prose makes technical writers the unsung heroes of the communication world. You need to turn complex techno-babble into layman-friendly prose without losing any of the vital information. Well, let’s spill the tea.

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Enchanting Marketing

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As Hemingway suggests: [The Old Man and the Sea] is the prose that I have been working for all my life that should read easily and simply and seem short and yet have all the dimensions of the visible world and the world of a man’s spirit.

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Grammar Underground

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But they're also common culprits in bad prose — inserting unnecessary or obvious information or linking ideas in ways that don't quite make sense. Reaching into her purse, Mary pulled out her phone …. Participial phrases like "reaching into her purse" are an indispensable part of the English language.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 23, 2023

Ready to add some interest and flair to your prose? Whether you’re freelance writing for a client or writing blog posts for your own business, diction is a great way to add some life and variety to your prose. Looking for diction examples to inspire your next writing project? Which type of diction will you try first?

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Melanie Saxton

JANUARY 27, 2023

Teresa looks forward to the upcoming Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival (April 14 to 16) and is partnering with its new literary component, Books on the Green.

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Jane Friedman

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This doesn’t mean that because you have the internal drive to write but haven’t pumped out profound prose that you “aren’t a writer.” journey to publication, which had begun while she was still in the MFA program at St. It probably means that you simply have to try harder or in more efficient ways. I love this and feel similarly.

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Grammar Underground

APRIL 19, 2021

And it has an uncanny power to promote wordy, inefficient prose. It pops up where it doesn’t belong in sentences like “I should of known.” It baffles even word-savvy users in expressions like “too big of a deal.” If you grew up speaking English, you never really had to learn “of.”

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Grammarly

JUNE 8, 2023

But for those who believe the biggest opportunity for generative AI lies in how quickly it can facilitate prose—think again. By: Matt Rosenberg Generative AI marks one of the greatest inflection points we’ve seen in changing how we work and communicate.

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Smart Blogger

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway — Atlantic City, New Jersey The Winter Poetry & Prose Getaway is a participant-focused writers’ conference. The getaway boasts challenging and supportive workshops, insightful feedback, and a supportive community.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 9, 2023

Examples of Alliteration in Literature In poetry and prose, alliteration and other sound devices like rhythm help create a tone or mood, suggest a tempo, and emphasize certain words or phrases. But writers can also use an alliterative phrase to emphasize a passage or develop a certain tone by repeating a similar sound.

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The Write Life

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Prose offers weekly challenges meant to spark your creativity; many are just for fun, but look for the weekly numbered challenges posted by Prose (rather than community members or sponsors) for a chance to win money. Each year, it opens submissions for pieces in four genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and prose poetry.

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Jane Friedman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

For starters, it has helped sharpen my prose. What made something funny? How did the humor enhance the story? Where did I get in my own way? I think this attentiveness has served my essays in myriad ways. Way back when my first collection was put into the humor genre, it sometimes felt like a mixed blessing.

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Smart Blogger

MARCH 30, 2023

Do you need some pizazz for your prose? For the next piece of prose you write, or blog post you publish, try adding a bit of satire or situational comedy to it and see where it takes you. Are you looking for different types of humor to add a little wow! to your writing? Now it’s time to put your newfound knowledge into action.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 26, 2023

But to effectively execute this elevated brand of first-person narrative, writers must navigate a complex set of rules and avoid any number of pitfalls that will turn a novel into a flat, dull expanse of prose. This is a prose-killing mistake. Let’s explore some ground rules (not an exhaustive list!)

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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.

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Honey Copy

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

And, while I’m a working writer that has put out two books of poetry and prose , hundreds of essays and more advertising than I can count for brands of all shapes and sizes… I realized that if I wanted to be the kind of “creator” that I admire, I’d have to do less curating and more creating. He’s too busy writing his own writing.

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Top Content Consulting

AUGUST 16, 2022

This will help polish up your prose and allow your work to shine. Editors have extensive tools and training that, when properly wielded, will make your prose sing. Working with a good line editor will improve your prose. What is editing? Writing is only half the work when creating content.

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Smart Blogger

APRIL 3, 2023

But if you’re uncertain which hyperboles will add pizazz to your prose, having some examples might get your creative juices a-flowin’! It’s an excellent approach for adding emphasis when no single words are strong enough to evoke the feeling you want your readers to experience. See what I did there?)

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Grammarly

APRIL 14, 2023

Through poetry, writers can express themselves in ways they can’t always through prose. A poem is a piece of writing that, in contrast to prose, primarily aims to evoke emotion in readers and listeners. Some kinds of poetry have few rules, while others have a rigid structure. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In fact, a New York Times article in 2022 judged that GPT-3 could create prose that matched the originality and fluency of a human. It’s important to remember that while GPT-3 can emulate human prose, specialized content will likely need a human touch.

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Article Writing

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Then there are those pesky words such as “just” or “that”, which may seem useful at first but can slow your prose considerably when they appear everywhere. Strong words will create strong prose! I’ll try to finish that report by the end of the day, say . I’ll finish that report by the end of the day. Conclusion.

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Jane Friedman

JUNE 20, 2023

Since the plan is only for you, you can include anything that reminds you what the pieces mean including pasted-in graphics, small chunks of prose, or links to web content you’ve researched. You can mangle grammar, misspell words or include cryptic things that only you understand.

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Jane Friedman

JULY 19, 2023

It’s not your protagonist, or your plot, or your prose. True stories don’t happen by keeping yourself separate from your story. They happen when you write bravely, honestly, and with purpose. You are the most important part of your story. You are the single irreplaceable element of your novel. If story is a tree, you are the roots.

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Grammarly

MARCH 7, 2023

uses iambic pentameter to give the prose a more subtle musicality. One of the most famous examples of iambic pentameter is the opening passage of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet : Two households, both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

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Grammarly

JULY 11, 2023

2 Don’t sweat the wording Grammarly is exceptional at turning ideas, jotted notes, and flawed prose into mistake-free writing. Adding details about content, writing purpose, audience, composition type, tone, style, and length can take your generated text from good to great. This certainly includes GrammarlyGO.

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Freelance Writing Jobs

JULY 7, 2023

Deadline: January 31, 2023 Storytwigs Microfiction This is a fun, relaxed, free competition for extremely short pieces of prose (storytwigs). The contest is open to entrants from anywhere in the world (English language only please) A prize of $150 will be awarded for the winning story. Prompts and contests are done monthly.

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Content Marketing Institute

DECEMBER 18, 2018

As he argues, “even highly educated people disengage rather than spend the mental energy to unpack dense, complicated prose.” But before you think Dan is arguing that journalists are prima donnas to be avoided, he provides advice on how to harness a journalist’s nose for a strong story and knack for compelling and highly readable prose.

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Content Marketing Institute

OCTOBER 2, 2018

OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. A picture can help somebody to understand what you want them to do, whereas prose requires an abstract to concrete translation that not everybody’s going to be able to do.

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Grammarly

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Chiasmus in this casual prose might create vivid imagery , but it also comes off as overdramatic. Some find that chiasmus can lend writing a more formal or old-fashioned tone because of the way that it swaps nouns , verbs , and adjectives around to create a mirrored structure. Think about the tone of your writing when considering chiasmus.

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Smart Blogger

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Takeaway Make your blog posts easier and more enjoyable to read with images, text boxes, and beautiful prose. Tomatoes are one of the most popular vegetables to grow at home, but getting them to ripen can sometimes be a challenge. Margaret’s beautifully written blog post helps solve this dilemma. Don’t Dig Up Dahlias For Winter!

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