Let’s dive into one of the key aspects that will help you create your unique style and voice: Rhythm.
“Oh,” you might say, “I’m writing fiction, not poetry.”
Read on. Rhythm is as critical to prose as it is to poetry or music.
Rhythm
Musicality is a highly overlooked but necessary element of quality writing. It contributes to the pace and flow of every moment. It pulls the readers into the story and guides them through in a pleasing way.
Rhythm is created by word choices, sentence structures, sentence length, and paragraph length.
Have you ever read something that starts to sound monotonous in your head, like the writer is droning on and on? Your eyes glaze over, and your mind wanders off the page. Then you have to skim back up and reread what your eyes had just gone over but your brain didn’t absorb. That can be caused by a lot of things, but a lack of rhythm in the writing is often the culprit.
Prose can have a rhythm — it needs a rhythm — just lik…
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