Fall into Writing

Writers always seek ways to improve their writing.

Whether novels or blogs, stories or plays, memoirs or articles, we want the best means to communicate our ideas. The spectrum of word choice spans straightforward to lyrical, plain to musical, all with the words perfect for their place.

The quickest improvements come after analyzing poems. Techniques (called by the very arcane term "rhetorical devices") developed to make ideas memorable, first to listeners gathered around home fires, then to large gatherings in the agora and assemblies and theaters, and third to individual readers of scrolls then books.

With audiobooks, we're back to wanting our words memorable to listeners.

Take this Fall to discover the techniques in Fall into Writing. Practice one skill per week. By year's end, a quick range of new skills will be yours. Sample practices and analyses to journal conclude each of the 14 chapters.

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The information in the 14 chapters of Fall into Writing first appeared on The Write Focus podcast as the 13-episode series Fall into Poetry, hosted and written by the multi-published M.A. Lee who has over 50 novel-length titles of fiction and nonfiction. Fall into Writing expands on the original work of the podcast series.

For a more in-depth survey of writing techniques Lee offers Discovering Sentence Craft. That guidebook offers a wide spectrum of literary and rhetorical devices, from auxesis to zeugma, with easy to understand explanations and examples.