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Managing Fictional Narrative Flow - Prose Style
Unit Completion Date: End of Week 9
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If you don't feel comfortable picking out the component phrases of sentences, I strongly advise that you pick up a textbook and brush up. Assuming while you may be a bit rusty a little practice has brought this back, you can now use this to evaluate and develop your prose. One very simple way is to start at the beginning of your story and identify all of the syntactical phrases you've used in each sentence by putting an "S" over each subject phrase, a "V" over each verb phrase, and an "O" over each object phrase.
Once you've done this, take a separate sheet of paper and just list the combinations of phrases as they occur within sentences. For example:
SVO
VOS
SVO, SVO (compound sentence)
OVS
SVO
etc.
If you identify a repeating pattern of, say, SVO constructions with very few variations, you have a clear insight into the prose constructions you tend to use, and what you can do to change you habits. Take the first page of the draft you've submitted and work through it using the technique described above. Submit a list of the constructions you've used, indicated using the SVO etc. combinations as I've done.
Style Exercise 2 (Opt.) - Submit response
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