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Style: Chapter 1, Section 3: Sentence Combinations
In the last two style essays, I covered relatively short, simple sentences ( §1.1 ) and their longer counterparts ( §1.2 ). Now I’m going...

Erik Harper Klass
Mar 1210 min read
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A Few Words on How I Edit
My Editing Philosophy Like all good editors, I’m concerned with those elemental, essential aspects of writing, including plot,...

Erik Harper Klass
Jul 14, 20245 min read
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Style: Chapter 1, Section 2: Long Sentences
For an introduction to these essays on style, click here .) In my last style post (section 1), I got into the art of writing short,...

Erik Harper Klass
Jun 2, 202414 min read
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Style: Chapter 1: Sentences
A good first step in developing style is to focus on the structures and combinations of sentences. All the great writers seem to...

Erik Harper Klass
Feb 10, 20248 min read
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Style Essays: Introduction
I am enamored of style. Style—that destination, that endgame, of what I call the writer’s craft —encompasses the quality of a writer’s...

Erik Harper Klass
Jan 27, 20245 min read
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“I’d like to talk about formatting and punctuating dialogue,” said Erik Harper Klass gleefully.
(Preliminary note: The author does not recommend or condone using adverbs with speaker tags. In the title above, and occasionally below,...

Erik Harper Klass
Dec 6, 20229 min read
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Bake Your Stories
I have learned over the years that it’s important to let my work sit for a while when I’ve completed a draft. I’ve come to call this...

Erik Harper Klass
Aug 17, 20224 min read
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Glass, Fire, and Siamese Lambs: How Field Research Can Improve Your Writing
For a long time, I dreaded conducting field research for my fiction writing. I think this goes back to my early writing days: ah, those...

Erik Harper Klass
Jun 22, 20225 min read
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What I Learned About Writing After Reading 1,000 Short Stories Last Year
(This essay was published in slightly different form in The Writing Cooperative .) A year or so ago, I started working on Submitit's...

Erik Harper Klass
Feb 28, 202112 min read
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