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what rhythm is advice/writing

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhyth…

—p.32 Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew Sentence Length and Complex Syntax (20) by Virginia Woolf
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what rhythm is advice/writing

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhyth…

—p.32 Sentence Length and Complex Syntax (20) by Virginia Woolf
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you can learn to deserve your gift.

A skill is something you know how to do. Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want to write. Craft enables art.

There's luck in art. And there's the gift. You can't earn that. But you can learn skill, you can earn it. You can learn to deserve …

—p.xiii Introduction (ix) by Ursula K. Le Guin
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