Overview

If sentences have enough life and interest in them, they will hold the reader's attention as it moves along.

A good lesson for any writer is to make each sentence worth reading, leading the reader to the following sentence. Write not only...

Get into a relaxed rhythm. 

• Notice your pace next time you walk–what feels comfortable?
• Let your speaking connect with your walking, and notice how your sentence structure changes. 
• Pay attention to when you pause and what patterns naturally emerge when you let y...

English audiences prefer short sentences and a subject-verb-object order.

Avoid a huge series of modifying clauses and parenthesis before you reach the subject of the sentence, else the reader’s brain will be working harder to make sense of the sentence. Meanwhile, you’re dist...