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Style Training With Ursula K. Le Guin, Exercise.3.2. (LONG SENTENCES)

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An exercise on writing long sentences of narrative.

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Improving one’s prose in minutes #2: Pleonasms – Issa A. Dioume

Categories art, Author, challenge, Creative Writing, Creative Writing exercise, exercise, experiment, fast, Fiction, FlashFiction, ink, Issa Dioume, learn, Onwriting, pleonasms, Poem, Practice, prompt, prose, Short-story, Shortstory, story, Style, Style Guide, training, Uncategorized, University, wordporn, Writer, Writing, writingprompt8 Comments on Improving one’s prose in minutes #2: Pleonasms – Issa A. Dioume

Short note on pleonasm, and easy exercise to check understanding.

#1 Short-story by Issa Dioume (THE CLICHED DETECTIVE-STORY)

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Victor Verdun is fifty years old. He sits at his desk, thinking and despondent.