Caroline Starr Rose

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Each sentence should lead to the next sentence.

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Good writing always gives pleasure to the ear. But in most good narrative, especially long narrative, it’s less the immediate dazzle of the words than the sounds, rhythms, setting, characters, actions, interactions, dialogue, and feelings all working together that make us hold our breath, and cry…and then turn the page to find out what happens next. And so, until the scene ends, each sentence should lead to the next sentence.
— Ursula Le Guin, Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story

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  1. Joanne R Fritz says

    May 15, 2020 at 12:23 pm

    Beautiful! And inspiring. Thank you, Caroline.

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    • Caroline says

      May 15, 2020 at 12:34 pm

      You’re very welcome. This seems like such a simple principal, but I find it pretty profound.

      Reply

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