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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. You don’t write about the horrors of war.

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What Is Prose? Definition, Meaning, and Examples

Grammarly

If you’re familiar with prose , you’ve probably heard it defined as “not poetry.” There are many types of prose; for example, prose fiction is writing that contains elements like character, setting, and theme. More broadly, prose is any writing that adheres to standard sentence and grammatical structure.

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How to Write a Well-Balanced, Meaningful Sentence

Enchanting Marketing

What’s the foundation of good writing? Such sentences sneak into my own writing, too. And I keep learning from the masters … “All you have to do is write one true sentence.” When Hemingway faced writer’s block, he told himself: All you have to do is write one true sentence. There’s no excess.

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

Arrant Pedantry

If the 18th edition is different, it’s that we know more than ever about how this work is done and which issues are likely to need a rule or recommendation—partly because the technology that we use to have conversations with each other is now essentially the same as the technology we use to write and edit and publish and all the rest.

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The Exact Steps I Took to Earn $2,000 in My First Month Freelancing (With No Experience)

Freelance Magic

Yet I thought (or, at least, I hoped), I could make my income for the next 10, 20, or even 50 years based solely off my love of writing and sheer determination. I had zilch freelancing experience; zilch experience writing for money. I used my pitch Remember that hotel company that wanted me to write descriptions for them?

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Write in Your Primary Language at Work: AI Translation to Enhance Your English Writing

Grammarly

But what if you could write in your primary language at work and instantly translate your text into fluent-sounding English? Fluency suggestions and full-paragraph rewrites help EAL professionals easily and quickly polish their writing in English. With advancements in AI translation tools, this is now possible.

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Why is legal writing so convoluted?

Grammar Underground

Legal writing is famously inscrutable and inaccessible — especially fond of long parenthetical ideas shoved in the middle of sentences. And according to a recent study, their reader-unfriendly prose is contagious. To find out, researchers asked 200 study participants to write laws prohibiting crimes like drunk driving and burglary.

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