I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
If All Men Were Brothers, Would You Let One Marry Your Sister?
Just think about it," he said softly. "You can do practically anything. You can have practically everything. And none of it will keep you from being alone." "Shut up shut up...Everybody's alone." He nodded. "But some people learn how to live with it.