Writing Notes: hear your paragraph
Reading aloud can make a crowded sentence easier to notice. Keep the rhythm that suits your narrator; short sentences are not always better. This exercise is our editorial suggestion.
Further reading: in John Wray’s published interview, Ursula K. Le Guin discusses her curiosity about other lives and ways of thinking. The exercises here are ours, not quotations or assignments from Le Guin.
Try it on your next page
Try this: read one paragraph aloud. Mark where you run out of breath or lose the point. Rewrite only those places, then compare both versions before choosing.
Further reading: Ursula K. Le Guin · The Paris Review
An original writing exercise from the AIBookCraft editorial team, with further reading from a published source.