Writing Teardown

This week's exercise is to create a complex sentence within a paragraph prompt.

There are short sentences and long sentences and simple sentences and complex sentences. This week we discuss why and how to use complex sentences.

Pauses serve specific functions in sentences. This exercise will help you identify them.

Commas are the bane of many new writers. We know the rules, but the rules often mess up how a sentence sounds. Can we break this rule? What do pauses in sentence do, anyway? This week we discuss how to shape the rhythm of a sentence using pauses.

This week's writing exercises cover simile, metaphor, and rhythm in terms of paragraph construction.

This episode goes over the basic elements of poetic prose and how they can be used to create a more powerful experience for your readers.

An exercise to go over the effective and appropriate use of run on sentences and sentence fragments as part of paragraph construction.

This episode goes over the nature of breaking grammatical rules at the sentence level--the when and why. Specific examples of run-on sentences and sentence fragments are examined.

What role does the sentence play as you are writing your story? What are the important goals it achieves? This week we look at the role of the sentence as we begin a series of episodes on sentence construction.

In this episode Jake presents four short exercises to provide a better understanding the goal of writing a paragraph.