Thursday, 7/19: Style

"Good writing is like a windowpane." --George Orwell

• Diction: Word choice, sentence structure.
• Pace: sentence length, grammar.

Exercise

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters." From Pride and Prejudice

"I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window." --Alice Munroe

Workshop II
Sarah, Katie, Samuel, Mick, Jake, Rose