Vary sentence structure to make your story interesting. It’s easy. Simply change the structure of the sentence, by moving the verb, adding prepositions, increasing word count or moving around the words. These structural fundamentals keep the paragraphs flowing.
Increase readership.
By including a few short sentences, and one line paragraphs, you capture the readers interest. By including longer sentences, you increase the impact of information on your articles, offering the readers choice. To maximize your efforts, vary your thought patterns. Consider not using commas. Give yourself an option to just write like you think and include some of the single word sentences that come to mind as you put your thoughts on paper.
WOW!
You mean to say, thinking out loud? Yes. I mean think outloud – er… in print.
Sometimes, you may actually want to skip the grammar rules and just write as you would speak. Few people speak in complete sentences. If your thought is complete without a verb – write it that way and change the punctuation to fit your purpose. Who says a sentence has to begin with a capital letter, have a verb and a noun, and end with a period.
—perhaps your sentence is a random thought—
Blogging offers a multitude of sins for grammarians and some of them are forgivable.
Write your best stuff.
6 responses so far ↓
1 Ron Berry // Jul 3, 2009 at 1:40 pm
I’ve done a bit of blogging so I see your point. When I have more time I want to read that piece about writing a book also.
2 admin // Jul 3, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Thanks Ron – the best part about having an incomplete thought in print is that people keep reading. It’s like a teaser.
3 Oris // Jul 3, 2009 at 2:54 pm
Thanks for the info. As you know, my thoughts are all incomplete!
Writing this morning I find I am in love again with commas. Like an illness, I assume this too shall pass.
4 Chris Speakman // Jul 3, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Dad and I use to have conversations about how language changes. He, at times, was a stick in the mud about word usage.
So, if language grows and changes shouldn’t grammar? Do we really miss the second period between the end of one sentence and the start of the next? Do we really miss the comma at the end of a list – apples, oranges and grapes?
Yeah, I do…only because these were drilled into my brain and now I have to excise them.
Guess it really is a matter of understanding correct grammar and structure and then using those tools for the best writing…whether you break the rules or not
5 Ava Betz // Jul 3, 2009 at 4:10 pm
“Perhaps your sentence is a random thought,” IS A SENTENCE! Random thoughts can be sentences. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater does not lead to communication. Yes, you should start written sentences with capital letters and you should end them with periods. The more you know how to use punctuation, the more creative and interesting you can be with it. Variety is the spice of life, ignorance is gruel. I’m climbing back into my non-electronic resource books now – dictionary, thesarus, grammar… .
Ava
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