Constance Hale Citas

• Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

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  Sinónimo

  Constance Hale (2001). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose”, p.16, Three Rivers Press

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• A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

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  Lying, Differences, Energy

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• Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea.

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  Dream, Struggle, Sea

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• Some of the worst writing around suffers from inert verbs and the unintended use of the passive voice. Yet the passive voice remains an important arrow in the rhetorical quiver. After all, it exists for a reason.

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  Writing, Passive Voice, Arrows

  "Mistakes were made" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. May 02, 2012.

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• La carne de la prosa obtiene su forma y su fuerza de los huesos de la gramática.

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  Shapes, Flesh, Bones

  Constance Hale (2013). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wicked Good Prose”, p.11, Three Rivers Press

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• Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. The best writers stamp prose with their own distinctive personality; their timbre and tone are as recognizable as their voices on the phone. To cultivate voice, you must listen for the music of language-the vernacular, the syntactic tics, the cadences.

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  Writing, Men, Sea

  Constance Hale (2001). “Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose”, Broadway

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• Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

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  Giving, Choices, Our Words

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• Be bold. Be fast. Get to the point right away. The best email communication is simple and clear.

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  Communication, Simple, Email

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• En última instancia, tanto si escribimos posts, párrafos, ensayos, argumentos, memorias, monografías o incluso simplemente el Gran Tuit Americano, escribir es y debe ser una gran aventura.

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  Writing, Adventure, Argument

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• Los escritores de hoy deben navegar por las cambiantes corrientes verbales de la era post-Gutenberg. ¿Cuándo termina la jerga y empieza una nueva lengua vernácula? ¿Dónde está el límite entre neologismo y exageración? ¿Cuál es el lenguaje de la aldea global? ¿Cómo podemos seguir el ritmo de la tecnología sin empantanarnos en palabras de moda? ¿Es posible escribir sobre máquinas sin perder el sentido de la humanidad y la poesía?

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  Writing, Technology, Hype

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• Language can still be an adventure if we remember that words can make a kind of melody. In novels, news stories, memoirs and even to-the-point memos, music is as important as meaning. In fact, music can drive home the meaning of words.

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  Home, Adventure, News Stories

  "Writing for the ear" by Lisa Dusenbery, therumpus.net. June 13, 2012.

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• In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

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  Writing, Important, Together

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• I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the alphabet! The manicule has been with us for a millennium! Thank you, Keith Houston, for bringing these little mysteries out of the shadows of typographic history.

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  Italian, Shadow, Houston

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• Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them.

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  Vocabulary, Appreciate, Giving

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• There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.

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  Play, Ideas, Style

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