Tuesday, September 8, 2015

The Rule of Thirds in Writing

Think of every sentence as a picture.  There is setting, person and object presented in the sentence.  (This applies only to Narrative, descriptive essays or short stories.)  

Use these three things in a way to link through a paragraph, and uses some variation of the setting, object and Person or persons to link through a paragraph:

3 things.  Landscape.  The Boy.  The Dog.  
(These are my linking idea/object things.  Each sentence details something further about one of these things through the paragraph.) 

(Notice that each Paragraph also gives you a little more information about each thing.  The Boy The Landscape of the Story.  The Dog.)

 This is an example of elegant variation

It was a slow auburn day, when the boy first spotted the dog crawling along the fence-line at the edge of his yard

 Jesse stood up from his seat on the porch, where he had been carving a piece of wood and yelled, "Hey, get away from there, you dummy, that's Miller's property, and he shoots tress-passers."  

Whether Susie heard him is unclear because she inched closer to the fence-line and then under it over onto the adjacent property below the barbed-wire line.  

Without thinking Jesse rose and pounded across the lawn and after the intruder, where he reached under the wire and grabbed the dog's leg.

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