March 21st, 2007 — uncategorized, sentences, publishing, blogtipping, CSFF
It’s Randy Ingermanson, and he’s the featured author this month for the Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy blog tour. Specifically, the tour is focusing on his book Double Vision.
You can find more great links to this book by going to Bethany House directly. For now, I’m going to tease readers with his great first sentence:
Keryn Wills was in the shower when she figured out how to kill Josh Trenton.
March 1st, 2007 — editing, writing, sentences, blogging, sentence tips, grammar
Fancy grammarians call them cumulative sentences. (Not to be confused with cumulus clouds.) The rest of us just call them loose. Like a pair of comfortable jeans. Like one of my daughter’s lower incisors. Like a lot of what Hemingway wrote.
And they are the easiest kinds of sentences to write. Anyone can do it. Here’s how.
February 8th, 2007 — editing, models, writing, sentences, speculative fiction, publishing, sentence tips
In my last sentence tip, I completely oversimplified one effect of short sentences. You have to start somewhere right? I freely admit that I oversimplified things on purpose.
And I’m going to do it again. Heh heh heh.
February 1st, 2007 — models, writing, sentences, sentence tips
There’s a story about George Washington Carver. He asked God to reveal the secrets of the universe, and God was silent. He asked God to reveal the secrets of science and biology, and God was silent. Then he asked God to reveal the secrets of the peanut, and God did.
I don’t care about peanuts. But you could say I’ve spent the last ten years asking God to help me understand the secrets of a sentence. And I’ve worked hard to show God that I’m serious about the question.
Along the way, I’ve learned some tricks about how sentences work, and I thought I would share those in a regular series called simply “Sentence Tips.”
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