For me, the sentence length is effectively the length of breath that any piece of writing asks for. How does a writer go about using language and grammar to achieve a desired composite effect?Ĭhristian Kiefer: I think the easy answer here is by consciously reading with language and musicality in mind. I found it interesting how you articulated conditioning these components with the shape of prose itself. Of Lauren Groff’s writing, you say, “The style of her sentences … are the gears and wheels of her genius.” Often, when we talk about craft, we’re looking at aspects of the form-point of view, exposition, characterization. Photo by Christophe Chammartin.įWR: Let’s start with your pieces for Literary Hub, where you focus on grammar as craft. Norton), One Day Soon Time Will Have No Place Left to Hide (Nouvella Books), and Phantoms (Liveright/W.W. Christian Kiefer is the director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Ashland University and is the author of The Infinite Tides (Bloomsbury), The Animals (W.W.
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