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Paper to digital: a year on (2013)

August 16, 2013May 2, 2017 Lucy Cripps1 Comment on Paper to digital: a year on (2013)

I’ve just got back from shopping for my son’s mountain of school things for the beginning of term. And one of those […]

Blog, Creative writing, Writing, Writing Resources

20 sentence patterns you can’t ignore

February 14, 2012May 1, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on 20 sentence patterns you can’t ignore

I’ve been working and researching sentences almost daily, now, for over a year. Yes I’m a word-nerd, but there you […]

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Extraposition and inversion: glam-sounding simple things

February 7, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on Extraposition and inversion: glam-sounding simple things

Sentence patterns are very predictable in English, and, whether you’re a native-speaker or not, it’s easy to get into a […]

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How to move from one sentence to the next, naturally

January 24, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on How to move from one sentence to the next, naturally

The key to moving naturally from one sentence to the next — which is, of course, the whole point of […]

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There, there: a no-brainer for emphasis in a sentence

January 17, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on There, there: a no-brainer for emphasis in a sentence

This approach to adding emphasis or drawing attention to one part of a sentence is rather grandly called ‘existential there’ […]

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Make words work

January 14, 2012May 1, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on Make words work

Placing emphasis on the right idea and right word in a sentence is an art. In the UK this isn’t […]

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How tiny words can change your writing

January 10, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on How tiny words can change your writing

One tiny little word can make such a difference to the meaning, the deeper meaning, of a sentence. Take a […]

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All power to ‘to be’: cleft sentences

January 4, 2012May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on All power to ‘to be’: cleft sentences

Writing teachers can be super mean about ‘to be’. It’s a boring, unemotive, indescriptive verb, a total waste of space, […]

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Kelly Rowland’s (tentatively-linked) advice for emphatic writing

December 28, 2011May 2, 2017 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on Kelly Rowland’s (tentatively-linked) advice for emphatic writing

Kelly Rowland said in an interview on BBC Radio 1 recently that she loves being in England because everyone sings […]

Blog, Creative writing, Grammar, Writing, Writing Resources emphatic sentences, focussing devices, sentences, writing with emphasis

The World of Ghostwriting

November 26, 2011 Lucy CrippsLeave a Comment on The World of Ghostwriting

Ghostwriters are the illicit side of writing. Prostitutes of the written word, if you will. Authors don’t like to admit […]

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