Building Great Sentences: Exploring the Writer's Craft Season 1 Episode 14 Cumulative Syntax to Create Suspense

  • May 8, 2025
  • 32 min

Learn to start thinking about sentences as not just "loose" or "periodic" but as possessing degrees of suspense. Base clauses in a cumulative sentence can be moved about or split to increase or decrease the reader's suspense about how the sentence will end.

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  • First Aired
    May 8, 2025
  • Runtime
    32 min
  • Language
    English
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