Topic
#craft
Pieces tagged craft
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Writing Weather, Light and Season Without Purple Prose
The sky can tell readers the hour, the season and the mood, if you describe it exactly. How to write weather and light in long-form without ornament.
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Writing About a Place You Visited, Without the Brochure
Itineraries, borrowed adjectives and a missing writer flatten most place pieces. How to write a place from what you noticed, not what impressed you.
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Pacing and White Space: Letting a Long Piece Breathe
Pace is built from choices you can see on the page: scene and summary, paragraph length, headings and pauses. How to use them in long-form writing.


