Full Description
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.
Contents
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
