A Smorgasbord of Sentences
Share your favourite snippets in the Community Corner - 2.24.25
Ok workshoppers, if you’ve been following along with all the Forever Workshop stuff this month then your head must be FULL of words by now…
We’ve had Nina Schuyler’s magnificent Write Perfect Sentences workshop, teaching us about syntax and rhythm and imagery and all that jazz (an essential deep-dive into sentence structure for any writer)
We’ve shared our opening lines with one another (and what a load of doozies there were!)
We’ve done a lil’ matchmaking with our very first Feedback Friends call-out - to help you guys find your perfect beta reader…
And now — you deserve a break.
Or, at least, a chance to let someone else do all the work for a minute…
Super-Inspiring Sentences
This week, to celebrate our love of the humble sentence, we invite you to inspire us by sharing your favourite sentence from your favourite book/story ever ever ever forever.
You know — the one that made you put the book down and stare at the wall for a minute, mind-blown.
The one that you copied out into your most beloved notebook to take with you everywhere.
The one you have on a post-it above your desk.
The one that makes the world make sense.
The one you silently recite to yourself now and then, to remind you of the magic of words.
The one that makes you go… shit, I wish I’d written that.
Show us the goods, babies.
If you like, pile in with your thoughts on WHY and HOW they work so well. Or just reply with a heartfelt wowwwwwww or fuck yeah.
(Oh, and don’t forget to tell us where your beautiful sentences are from so we can all add them to our TBR pile!)
Happy reading/writing/wording, all.
<3
"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
— Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away—until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence."
— Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
Also the entire first page of Lolita by Nabakov. Holy writing, Batman.
"There once was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubbs and he almost deserved it." - CS Lewis
"“If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.” - George Eliot