3 essays
Prose & Style
Good prose isn't elegant — it's exact. The move from ‘a bird’ to ‘a thrush’ looks stylistic. It's actually ethical: it's how a writer takes the world seriously.
Prose & Style
Prose rhythm isn't a mystical quality. It's a specific technical skill you can hear when you read aloud, and fix with specific techniques.
Prose & Style
Most pages of prose have four or five working sentences and the rest is padding. The test: can you point to the sentence the page exists for?