Our word choices give a sentence its luster, and they deserve intense attention.

The flesh of prose gets its shape and strength from the bones of grammar.

Verbose is not a synonym for literary.

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting. What makes the difference? The verb.

In writing, the connection between storyteller and audience is just as important. By using some subtle devices, a narrator can reach out to the reader and say, 'We’re in this together.'

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

There is no one way to render an idea. Let’s explore how masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive.