Stunning Sentences A Creative Writing Journal with 80 Prompts from Beloved Authors to Improve Your Style
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Revered writing instructor Nina Schuyler is a former professor at University of San Francisco, and currently teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies, Book Passage, and Sibyl Writing Craft. She also facilitates the popular Stunning Sentences Substack. Her fiction has received accolades as well and includes, In This Ravishing World, and the novels, Afterword, The Translator, and The Painting. Her short stories have been widely published and honored. She lives in San Francisco, CA.Stunning Sentences A Creative Writing Journal with 80 Prompts from Beloved Authors to Improve Your Style
<p><b>Praise for Nina Schuyler's Stunning Sentences: A Creative Writing Journal</b></p><p>“Nina Schuyler’s book is a creative antidote for anyone experiencing stuckedness, malaise, bad news, the doldrums. And just as useful for those who aren’t feeling stuck but just want fresh, new ways to charge their writing. In her book you’ll find a host of stunning sentences and prompts for she’s a finder, she knows how to find the stunners, then shows you through specific examples how to bring forth your own great lines.” —<b>Toni Mirosevich, author of <i>Spell Heaven</i></b></p><p>“<i>Stunning Sentences</i> is simply wonderful. There are eighty magical prompts that author Nina Schuyler has carefully curated, providing writers a wide range of tips and techniques to try out. This workbook is a roadmap to hone skills and will give writers tools to effectively inject imagery and rhythm in their own work.” <b>—Devi S. Laskar, author of <i>Circa</i> and <i>The Atlas of Reds and Blues</i></b></p><p><b>Praise for Nina Schuyler's <i>How to Write Stunning Sentences</i></b></p><p>“Nina Schuyler’s <i>How to Write Stunning Sentences</i> is like a Kama Sutra for sentences: it describes the positions and passions of her artful love, and through sharp analyses and generous prompts suggests how you too, writer, may become such an artful lover...Read it and the pleasure will be yours.” <b>—Aaron Shurin, author of <i>King of Shadows</i> and <i>The Skin of Meaning</i></b></p><p>“Passionately intense and exquisitely precise, Nina Schuyler’s brilliant readings of gorgeously disparate sentences by a wide spectrum of innovative writers illuminate the subversive pleasures of suspension and subordination, the joys of complexity and extravagance, and the potent, piercing delights of language distilled to spare perfection.” <b>—Melanie Rae Thon, author of <i>Voice of the River</i>, <i>Silence & Song</i>, and <i>The 7th Man</i></b></p><p>“Nina Schuyler is an alchemist of style. This book is a fantastic contribution to the literature of craft.” <b>—Caro De Robertis, author of Cantoras: A Novel</b></p>
Sentences are alive. Done well, they can help us see the world anew.
To create such sentences you need fresh, varied rhythms and imagery. In this creative writing journal, Nina Schuyler, award-winning author of the bestseller How to Write Stunning Sentences, presents 80 new prompts that show the breathtaking stretch of language. With stunning sentences from beloved writers like Toni Morrison, Lauren Groff, Virginia Woolf, and Jesmyn Ward, coupled with Nina’s precise analysis, you will be propelled to create your own striking sentences. This journal will renew your writing skills and allow you to see through any sentence to the bones of style.
Sibylline Press is proud to announce its new imprint, Sibyl Writing Craft, dedicated to providing definitive titles on writing craft and the book business for writers.
Stunning Sentences: A Creative Writing Journal
By Nina Schuyler
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Syntax
Part Two: Rhythm and Sound
Part Three: Schemes and Tropes
Part Four: Diction
Part Five: Imagery
Glossary: Grammar
Glossary: Rhetoric
About the Author
<p><b>Praise for Nina Schuyler's Stunning Sentences: A Creative Writing Journal</b></p><p>“Nina Schuyler’s book is a creative antidote for anyone experiencing stuckedness, malaise, bad news, the doldrums. And just as useful for those who aren’t feeling stuck but just want fresh, new ways to charge their writing. In her book you’ll find a host of stunning sentences and prompts for she’s a finder, she knows how to find the stunners, then shows you through specific examples how to bring forth your own great lines.” —<b>Toni Mirosevich, author of <i>Spell Heaven</i></b></p><p>“<i>Stunning Sentences</i> is simply wonderful. There are eighty magical prompts that author Nina Schuyler has carefully curated, providing writers a wide range of tips and techniques to try out. This workbook is a roadmap to hone skills and will give writers tools to effectively inject imagery and rhythm in their own work.” <b>—Devi S. Laskar, author of <i>Circa</i> and <i>The Atlas of Reds and Blues</i></b></p><p><b>Praise for Nina Schuyler's <i>How to Write Stunning Sentences</i></b></p><p>“Nina Schuyler’s <i>How to Write Stunning Sentences</i> is like a Kama Sutra for sentences: it describes the positions and passions of her artful love, and through sharp analyses and generous prompts suggests how you too, writer, may become such an artful lover...Read it and the pleasure will be yours.” <b>—Aaron Shurin, author of <i>King of Shadows</i> and <i>The Skin of Meaning</i></b></p><p>“Passionately intense and exquisitely precise, Nina Schuyler’s brilliant readings of gorgeously disparate sentences by a wide spectrum of innovative writers illuminate the subversive pleasures of suspension and subordination, the joys of complexity and extravagance, and the potent, piercing delights of language distilled to spare perfection.” <b>—Melanie Rae Thon, author of <i>Voice of the River</i>, <i>Silence & Song</i>, and <i>The 7th Man</i></b></p><p>“Nina Schuyler is an alchemist of style. This book is a fantastic contribution to the literature of craft.” <b>—Caro De Robertis, author of Cantoras: A Novel</b></p>
Sentences are alive. Done well, they can help us see the world anew.
To create such sentences you need fresh, varied rhythms and imagery. In this creative writing journal, Nina Schuyler, award-winning author of the bestseller How to Write Stunning Sentences, presents 80 new prompts that show the breathtaking stretch of language. With stunning sentences from beloved writers like Toni Morrison, Lauren Groff, Virginia Woolf, and Jesmyn Ward, coupled with Nina’s precise analysis, you will be propelled to create your own striking sentences. This journal will renew your writing skills and allow you to see through any sentence to the bones of style.
Sibylline Press is proud to announce its new imprint, Sibyl Writing Craft, dedicated to providing definitive titles on writing craft and the book business for writers.
Stunning Sentences: A Creative Writing Journal
By Nina Schuyler
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Syntax
Part Two: Rhythm and Sound
Part Three: Schemes and Tropes
Part Four: Diction
Part Five: Imagery
Glossary: Grammar
Glossary: Rhetoric
About the Author