Yes, your writing needs rhythm. It’s a critical aspect of crafting a story that will engage readers.
We’re not talking about poetry here. Your prose needs a rhythm. Writing without rhythm becomes monotonous.
There are numerous aspects that go into developing rhythm in your writing. Here are just a few:
Sentence length
Sentence construction
Word choices
Descriptive language
Mix of narrative styles (narration, dialogue, exposition, action, etc.)
Pace and flow of the story
Today, let’s chat about one of these facets: sentence construction.
An otherwise good story can easily bog down, become monotonous reading that causes readers’ eyes to glaze over if the writing uses the same sentence composition over and over. Varying the length of sentences, mixing them up, is critically important, but we’ll touch on that in a separate episode later.
Let’s take a made-up example and break this down.
Simple sentence structure
I wake up in the morning. I dread the day at work. The bos…
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