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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

The Death of the Sentence

Describe things using only sentence fragments. All pressure to craft meaningful sentences is off. Just write what you see and feel. Just focus on the descriptions in the fragments. They might be short. They might be long "run-on fragments." If you want to see how your description works, try making each fragment its own paragraph. Fragments can be fun. 

The scarlet poppy waiting to bloom, that doesn't know the freeze is coming.
The sudden modest hot-pink stars that hide among the green.
The rough stalky stems with the purple-blue layered flowers that almost make me believe in indigo.
The translucent golden honey-bee with its soft dark zebra-stripes and mean bright yellow wasp with its thin black lines.

Write concretely, specifically, sensory-ly. Use lots of prepositions. Forgo lesser punctuation such as commas, dashes, and semicolons. What you see and what you would say are two completely disparate things. Forget the verbs. Use fragments.

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