https://www.odysseyworkshop.org/directors-corner-the-compelling-emotional-complex-sentence/ For writers of fantasy, science fiction, and horror. Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:15:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.odysseyworkshop.org/directors-corner-the-compelling-emotional-complex-sentence/#comment-4148 Wed, 13 Jul 2022 09:15:51 +0000 https://odysseyworkshop.wordpress.com/?p=4016#comment-4148 Thank you for this great, step-by-step analysis. Often we are warned against long sentences, possibly because many believe Hemingway wrote in short sentences and they take his writing–at least their perception of his writing–as their example. There is a book I came across which might be of interest to the student of long sentence construction, and which I think complements this blog. It is “Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read” by Brooks Landon. Thank you, in any case, for explaining the structure of the passages from King and Bradbury so clearly, for shedding light…

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