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The New Chicago’s Here! The New Chicago’s Here!

Arrant Pedantry

There are several other firsts in the new edition, but for any concept to make it into the Manual , it has to be something that writers and editors might encounter as they get their words and images ready to publish. The 18th edition is also the first to cover emojis—mainly in terms of Unicode but also relative to sentence punctuation.

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7 ways to write beautiful prose

The Write Life

Writing beautiful prose isn’t something every writer nails in the beginning. Strong prose often reads like poetry. The term “purple prose” refers to writing that might be a bit too flowery. That’s not always a bad thing—lots of readers and writers love flowery prose. Writing beautiful prose is similar to writing poetry.

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The Platform Authors Need Now (That Isn’t Social Media)

Jane Friedman

If you’re a more literary writer (where what attracts readers to your work is the quality of the prose and the depth of the concept), start working your way up the literary magazine ladder. Publication Quite simply, start getting your work into the world.

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A Guide to Paraphrasing Poetry, With Examples

Grammarly

There are two ways to paraphrase a poem: Describe the poem in detail using prose or nonpoetic text to give readers a sense of what the original is like. Students employ this method of paraphrasing for academic writing assignments that call for both direct quotes and paraphrased prose in order to analyze a poem.

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How to Write a Nonfiction Book Chapter Without Tears

Jane Friedman

Since the plan is only for you, you can include anything that reminds you what the pieces mean including pasted-in graphics, small chunks of prose, or links to web content you’ve researched. You can use graphics to illuminate concepts or quote whole paragraphs of other work (with appropriate credit and permission, of course).

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Brands Often Overlook This Superhero of Storytelling

Content Marketing Institute

OK, maybe writing this article as a comic script isn’t such a great idea, even if prose is at a disadvantage when discussing such a visual medium. A picture can help somebody to understand what you want them to do, whereas prose requires an abstract to concrete translation that not everybody’s going to be able to do.

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5 Ways to Make a Writing Retreat “Pay Off”

Jane Friedman

The delicious word “treat” is even embedded in the concept, connoting something special or perhaps even forbidden. I had wanted to get into prose poetry and brought three books with me on the subject…and touched none of them. Photo by ConvertKit on Unsplash Today’s post is by writer and book coach Amy Goldmacher. Ah, a writing retreat.

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