Writing Book 7 · Lesson 18

The Literary Sentence

A literary sentence is built for its effect, not only for its meaning.

What you read today

The Writing of Literature, pages 107–107 — the chapter The Literary Sentence.

This lesson's text is the book itself. Your teacher has the pages; read them with the class, then do the work on your sheet.

Remember
Read it as a writer: not only what happens, but what the author did to make it happen that way.
Ask yourself: “Is this sentence shaped, or just finished?”

Remember

A sentence can be correct and still be doing nothing.

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