How to Write Stunning Sentences - by Nina Schuyler (Paperback)

About the Book

HOW TO WRITE STUNNING SENTENCES is like a private lesson with Nina Schuyler-award-winning author and long-time instructor on style in prose.

Book Synopsis

You've got a great story, but do you have great sentences?

Stylish sentences have their own powerful energy that mesmerizes and even rearranges a reader's world. Think of this book as a private lesson with Nina Schuyler - award winning author and professor of creative writing -- featuring guest appearances by the masters, including James Baldwin, Grace Paley, Anne Carson, Justin Torres, and Toni Morrison. They've arrived to show you the mechanics of their magic.

Featuring 31 essays and over 100 writing prompts, How to Write Stunning Sentences is the best way to practice writing sentences with style. The second edition of this indispensable guide includes seven new essays and more prompts.

Sibylline Press is proud to announce its new imprint, Sibyl Writing Craft, dedicated to providing definitive titles on writing craft and the book business for writers.

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Praise for Nina Schuyler's How to Write Stunning Sentences

"Nina Schuyler's How to Write Stunning Sentences is like a Kama Sutra for sentences: it describes the positions and passions of her artful love, and through sharp analyses and generous prompts suggests how you too, writer, may become such an artful lover...Read it and the pleasure will be yours." -Aaron Shurin, author of King of Shadows and The Skin of Meaning

"Passionately intense and exquisitely precise, Nina Schuyler's brilliant readings of gorgeously disparate sentences by a wide spectrum of innovative writers illuminate the subversive pleasures of suspension and subordination, the joys of complexity and extravagance, and the potent, piercing delights of language distilled to spare perfection." --Melanie Rae Thon, author of Voice of the River, Silence & Song, and The 7th Man

"Nina Schuyler is an alchemist of style. This book is a fantastic contribution to the literature of craft." --Caro De Robertis, author of Cantoras: A Novel

Praise for Nina Schuyler's Stunning Sentences: A Creative Writing Journal

"Nina Schuyler's book is a creative antidote for anyone experiencing stuckedness, malaise, bad news, the doldrums. And just as useful for those who aren't feeling stuck but just want fresh, new ways to charge their writing. In her book you'll find a host of stunning sentences and prompts for she's a finder, she knows how to find the stunners, then shows you through specific examples how to bring forth your own great lines." --Toni Mirosevich, author of Spell Heaven

"Stunning Sentences is simply wonderful. There are eighty magical prompts that author Nina Schuyler has carefully curated, providing writers a wide range of tips and techniques to try out. This workbook is a roadmap to hone skills and will give writers tools to effectively inject imagery and rhythm in their own work." --Devi S. Laskar, author of Circa and The Atlas of Reds and Blues