The Only Kind of Sentence You Should Use in Your Fiction

ARTICLE BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERS VIA IO9.COM

People will advise you to write all sorts of sentences. Snappy sentences, lyrical sentences, Hemingway-esque short sentences, long Faulknerian sentences. But there’s really only one kind of sentence that actually works:a sentence that carries the reader forward from the previous sentence.This is harder than it sounds.

I don’t care what kind of fiction you’re writing. Introspective or action-packed, sprawling or tightly focused, character-driven or idea...