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figure 1. Freytag’s Triangle
George Saunders • A Swim in a Pond in the Rain: In Which Four Russians Give a Master Class on Writing, Reading, and Life
Rauno Freiberg
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In both examples each line contains a single thought that finishes with the line. This is called end-stopping, which we could mark like this. The woods decay, the woods decay and fall ⊡ I haven’t time to take your call right now ⊡
Stephen Fry • The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within
“the hero’s journey.” (Christopher Vogler, in his landmark interpretation of Joseph Campbell’s work, The Writer’s Journey, refined the stages to twelve. Chris’s book has become a Hollywood standard and a classic screenwriting textbook throughout the world.)
Mark Manson • Will
the secret to good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.
- Richard Harding Davis
Look closely at those two examples above. Not only do they feature these run-ons or enjambments, which allow a sense of continual flow, they also contain pauses which break up that flow; in the examples above it happens that these pauses are expressed by commas that serve the office of a breath, or change of gear: I shall render them like this ¶. H
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Brooke is a very good fellow, but pulpy; he will run into any mould, but he won’t keep shape.’