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Bonus ninja tactics: The one breath readback

Bonus ninja tactics: The one breath readback

From the course: Ninja Writing: The Four Levels of Writing Mastery

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Bonus ninja tactics: The one breath readback

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- So, I want to tell you about the one breath read back. The one breath read back is the final stage where you read through all your sentences that you've put together in one breath, that's without stopping, you've got to just, because that's the only way to really uncover the rhythm of your sentences. When taking in isolation and in different parts, you can't really get a sense of the whole, so you're not gonna be able to find, they might work perfectly within that section, but when you look at it how it flows from the previous section, it's not so beautiful. So, it's very important to do this one breath read back which is nonstop, read the whole thing every sentence through and notice the rhythmic relationships between each of them, and that's where, when you do that, you can begin to tick off, "Okay, this is, "this little transition from this sentence "to this sentence doesn't quite work "as beautifully as I thought it did." and you'll find this repeatedly when you do this that…

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