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The beauty of elegance
From the course: Writing with Flair: How to Become an Exceptional Writer
The beauty of elegance
- The beauty of simplicity we saw is that it makes your writing light and fast, not slow and heavy. Then we experienced the beauty of clarity, and saw how it makes your writing crisp, sharp and focused. The beauty of elegance, the subject of this section is that it makes your writing orderly and graceful. It's the quality that makes writing flow. Now imagine what can happen when simplicity and clarity meet elegance. They're enough to create enormous power in your writing because when they come together, the results can really be magical, because elegance the quality that can turn something clear but clunky like this: Into writing that's musical and flowing like this: The following lectures will help you to understand what gracefulness and orderliness mean in the realm of writing. You'll see how to make your writing less chaotic or random. You'll learn how to avoid monotony, and how instead, to give your writing rhythm and musicality. You'll discover how to infuse elegance into the…
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The beauty of elegance3m 27s
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Presentational elegance or "house style"7m 22s
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Narrative elegance5m 42s
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Narrative elegance: Exercises2m 36s
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Stray thoughts3m 53s
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Elegant paragraphs4m 59s
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Elegant paragraphs: Exercises1m 58s
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Timing, rhythm, and musicality4m 5s
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Timing, rhythm, and musicality: Exercises2m 33s
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Elegant transitions4m
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Parallel ideas3m 3s
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Parallel ideas: Exercises1m 27s
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Word echoes5m 56s
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