Crafting Vivid Sentences that
Hook our Readers
Genealogist Carol Baxter turned her hobby into a writing career when she stumbled across a political sex scandal, decided to write a book about the story, and had her draft manuscript picked up by the first major publisher she approached. Her six "popular histories" have received international acclaim.
In Crafting Vivid Sentences that Hook Our Readers, Carol teaches you how to use the "parts of speech" of the English language to craft descriptive prose that your readers will want to read.
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Crafting Vivid Sentences that Hook our Readers
Financial planners advise that the best way to acquire more money is to make the most of what we've got – aka, don’t fritter your money away.
The same can be said for writing. The simplest way to craft an interesting family history, or other piece of prose, is to make the most of the words in our language: nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs. There’s no need to send our readers to sleep when a simple word replacement or two can bring a sentence, a paragraph, a story to life.
This online lesson discusses the basic tools in our writing toolbox, the tools that were once monopolised by fiction writers but are now used by nonfiction writers to hook our readers.
Lesson type: Writing
Video duration: 52 minutes
Handout: Yes
Published: 2022
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This single lesson is expanded upon in the ten lesson Words, Words, Words course.
