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Revered writing instructor Nina Schuyler is a former professor at University of San Francisco, and currently teaches creative writing for Stanford Continuing Studies, Book Passage, and Sibyl Writing Craft. She also facilitates the popular Stunning Sentences Substack. Her fiction has received accolades as well and includes, In This Ravishing World, and the novels, Afterword, The Translator, and The Painting. Her short stories have been widely published and honored. She lives in San Francisco, CA.

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Sentences are alive. Done well, they can help us see the world anew.

To create such sentences you need fresh, varied rhythms and imagery. In this creative writing journal, Nina Schuyler, award-winning author of the bestseller How to Write Stunning Sentences, presents 80 new prompts that show the breathtaking stretch of language. With stunning sentences from beloved writers like Toni Morrison, Lauren Groff, Virginia Woolf, and Jesmyn Ward, coupled with Nina’s precise analysis, you will be propelled to create your own striking sentences. This journal will renew your writing skills and allow you to see through any sentence to the bones of style.

Sibylline Press is proud to announce its new imprint, Sibyl Writing Craft, dedicated to providing definitive titles on writing craft and the book business for writers.

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Stunning Sentences: A Creative Writing Journal

By Nina Schuyler

Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Syntax

Part Two: Rhythm and Sound

Part Three: Schemes and Tropes

Part Four: Diction

Part Five: Imagery

Glossary: Grammar

Glossary: Rhetoric

About the Author