Variety is the Spice of your Writing

As writers, we tend to focus on what we think is important in the act of storytelling: plot, motivation, character development, pacing, arc. Of course, those are all great aspects and writers should pay  attention to them but how many writers pay an equal amount of attention to the words they put on the paper, to the structure and length of their sentences. In short, to their prose?I like to think of a story as a giant block of clay and the words as my tools, carving away at it. It’s a visual th...