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Enhance Your Writing

• How do you enhance your writing?
• What is enhancing our writing?
• Why do we do it?

Here are the answers for writers who want to improve their skills.

In the forests of words that we writers grow, blazed trails mark the way to our destination. Without those trails, without paths leading down to sun-sparkled streams, without the yellow brushstroke painted on tree after tree, we might lose our direction and our sanity.

Reading through that opening paragraph, most writers will recognize the extended hiking metaphor. Many will spot inversion and alliteration. A few will appreciate the anaphora and auxesis and zeugma, even when not familiar with those terms.

This is Sentence Craft. Controlled use creates appreciative readers. Over-blown use drives readers away.

Yet you can enhance your writing with simple techniques.

• Sentence Craft—from easy imagery to involved structures—is essential for the poet.
• Bloggers and other nonfiction writers will find it a marketing tool, distinguishing them from their competition.
• Speech writers and great broadcast journalists use these devices to make their spoken words become memorable.
• With fiction, writers paint expositions and settings and character tags, capturing readers who may not even recognize the sweeping stroke of the magical wand.

Discovering Sentence Craft is for writers new and old. For newbies, word-tricks can be fascinating ventures into an unknown forest. These tricks can renew a veteran writer’s love of words and sentences flowing onto the page.

In small offerings, of course. Too many tricks glaze our readers’ eyes.

Discovering Sentence Craft covers figurative and interpretive concepts as well as the structural elements that build meaning, emphasis, and memory.

Ways to Enhance Your Writing include ~

Concepts

I: Figurative

II: Interpretive

Structures

III: Inversion

IV: Repetition

V: Opposition

VI: Sequencing

Writer M.A. Lee believes writing is a skill-based craft which can be learned and practiced. Artists learn composition, perspective, depth, proportion, and shading. A baseball player learns in-field and out-field, pitching vs. throwing, batting and bunting. An electrician learns reading blueprints, voltage and current, circuits, outlets, and panels.

A writer needs much more than grammar and spelling. Reading widely, Discovering Sentence Craft concepts and structures, and practicing them will open doors for anyone who wants to improve.

Discover more ways here: 

Discovering Sentence Craft is celebrating its birthday!

In the forests of words that we writers grow, blazed trails mark the way to our destination. Without those trails, without paths leading down to sun-sparkled streams, without the yellow brushstroke painted on tree after tree, we might lose our direction and our sanity.

Reading through that opening paragraph, most writers will recognize the extended hiking metaphor. Many will spot inversion and alliteration. A few will appreciate the anaphora and auxesis and zeugma, even when not familiar with those terms.

This is Sentence Craft. Controlled use creates appreciative readers. Over-blown use drives readers away.

• Sentence Craft—from easy imagery to involved structures—is essential for the poet.
• Bloggers and other nonfiction writers will find it a marketing tool, distinguishing them from their competition.
• Speech writers and great broadcast journalists use these devices to make their spoken words become memorable.
• With fiction, writers paint expositions and settings and character tags, capturing readers who may not even recognize the sweeping stroke of the magical wand.

Discovering Sentence Craft is for writers new and old. For newbies, word-tricks can be fascinating ventures into an unknown forest. These tricks can renew a veteran writer’s love of words and sentences flowing onto the page.

In small offerings, of course. Too many tricks glaze our readers’ eyes.

Discovering Sentence Craft covers figurative and interpretive concepts as well as the structural elements that build meaning, emphasis, and memory.

Concepts

I: Figurative

II: Interpretive

Structures

III: Inversion

IV: Repetition

V: Opposition

VI: Sequencing

Writer M.A. Lee believes writing is a skill-based craft which can be learned and practiced. Artists learn composition, perspective, depth, proportion, and shading. A baseball player learns in-field and out-field, pitching vs. throwing, batting and bunting. An electrician learns reading blueprints, voltage and current, circuits, outlets, and panels.

A writer needs much more than grammar and spelling. Reading widely, Discovering Sentence Craft concepts and structures, and practicing them will open doors for anyone who wants to improve.

Check it out here.

Don’t fear the great *unmentioned unmentionable* for writers.

Let’s DEFEAT WRITER’S BLOCK.

How do we defeat Writer’s Block?

• Strategies to tackle that monster.
• Advice from other 15 best-selling writers.
• Detailed explanations to start doing now!

This book comes direct from The Write Focus podcast and its host M.A. Lee.

Suffering every writer’s serious malady of writer’s block?

We may say the mantra “Writer’s Block doesn’t exist”, but something more than simple disruptions and distractions can interfere with our writing, creating insurmountable walls.

The Write Focus analyzes the three most common types and offers solutions to Overcome and Defeat this monster looming over the writer’s desk.

The best solution, though, is Leo Tolstoy’s mantra: No days without lines :: Nulla dies sine linea. Make that your own mantra.

Published August 8.

Ebook from Worldwide Distributors like Kobo, B&N, and more:  Find it here.

Ebook and Paperback from amazing Amazon: Also on preorder, available on the 8th.

Audiobook also available (although some distributors may not have the book available for 30 days from publication. Ah well.).

Available Now: Storytel / https://www.storytel.com/se/sv/books/defeat-writers-block-think-like-a-pro-writer-6-8875896 

and Libro /  https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798988473985

Coming Soon to Apple, Audible, Chirp, Kobo, and more!

Chapters

1. Introduction
2. Overcoming Type 1: Refusal, easy to defeat
3. Overcoming Type 2: Procrastination, difficult
4. Overcoming Type 3: Inertia, the worst
5. Pro Writers’ Advice, part A ~ 5 best-selling writers speak on writer’s block and how they defeated it
6. Pro Writers’ Advice, part B ~ 6 best-sellers talk about writer’s block and strategies
7. How One Pro Writer Defeated the Monster ~ Erle Stanley Gardner and his strategies
8. More Techniques from Erle Stanley Gardner
9. Avoid These Mistakes, part A ~ offered by Judy Delton
10. Avoid These Mistakes, part B ~ more to avoid from J. Delton
11. Mary Stewart on Writing Flow ~ shared by her in her novel The Stormy Petrel
12. Storyteller and Story Teacher ~ Kate Wilhelm’s remembrances on writing barriers
13. Burnham Talks Block ~ Sophie Burnham devotes a chapter to writer’s block in her book On Writing
14. Whitney’s Solutions ~ America’s first great writer of romantic suspense, Phyllis A. Whitney shares many techniques in her book Guide to Fiction Writing

The book comes from the series of the same name on the podcast The Write Focus, hosted by M.A. Lee with the assistance of Edie Roones and Remi Black. The podcast is a presentation of Writers’ Ink Books.