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Discover six powerful tools to elevate your creative writing and engage your readers. Craft words, sentences, and paragraphs that build momentum, creating rhythm and excitement. Employ vivid imagery to paint a "movie in the reader's mind" and infuse your writing with tension through conflict and intrigue. Master the art of pattern and structure to enhance readability and draw attention. Finally, offer unique insights that encourage readers to see the world through different perspectives while avoiding preachiness. Your writing can truly resonate!
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Creative Writing Six Tools to Make Your Writing Effective
Energy • This is the spark that makes reader pay attention • Words • Sentences • Paragraphs/Stanzas build momentum • Interesting leaps, gaps, pauses • Rhythm, excitement, interest
Images • “Movie in the reader’s mind” • When you read, you see • See, smell, hear, touch
Tension • Underlying push-pull, conflict, juxtaposition • What will happen next? • Readers want to figure things out but they also want to be intrigued • Vary the levels of tension
Pattern • Attracts the human eye • Subtly layer your insights • Images, sounds, words, etc.
Insight • We read to see the world from another’s perspective • Careful attention to human experience • Readers reject Big Conclusions laid on top of piece of writing – preachy
Structure • Like the recipe for your work • Blueprint, map, format • Putting together things in interesting ways