From the course: Ninja Writing: The Four Levels of Writing Mastery
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Recognize a non-sentence
From the course: Ninja Writing: The Four Levels of Writing Mastery
Recognize a non-sentence
- Okay, so we've looked at level one, The Narrative, we've looked at level two, The Paragraphs, and now we're gonna zoom in that bit closer and look at the level of sentences. So there's a lot to say, a lot of improvements and refinements, subtle and not so subtle that you can make to enhance the sentence level of your writing. To start with, I don't wanna go too much into grammar, and my courses try to avoid getting into the boring technical stuff. But this is kind of, too important to miss, you know, so there are some things I wanna say about that. Now there are a lot of disagreements that people have about grammar as well, is the other reason why I don't wanna get too deeply into that, I assume a certain level of understanding, and I'm not, as a newspaper journalist, someone with that background, I'm not obsessed with a purist approach to grammar. And I agree with, so George Bernard Shaw, the playwright, famously wrote to the editor of The Times, he was complaining about a…
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Recognize a non-sentence7m 27s
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Tighten sentences3m 7s
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Sharpen sentences9m 20s
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Give sentences rhythm13m
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Produce poetic sentences8m
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Create emphasis3m 2s
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Whip up drama7m 27s
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Don't give readers whiplash2m 49s
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Stick to what's necessary2m 50s
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Avoid back referencing2m 50s
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Avoid run-on ambiguity2m 45s
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Ninja writing exercises: Sentences8m 15s
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Bonus ninja tactics: Write for your grandma1m 58s
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Bonus ninja tactics: The one breath readback2m 43s
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