this is one of the best pieces of prose-level writing advice i've ever encountered and i wish they'd teach it in elementary schools. i spent SO much time knowing that something like this was what was separating my writing (at the level of diction and sentence structure) from the things i loved to read but not being able to identify it; if i'd run into this it would've cracked off my power limiter in a second. transcript follows after readmore:
this is very good writing advice that I didn't know or think about before but I definitely agree with and will keep in mind in the future because I want to write better
There's some great exercises to this effect in Ursula K. LeGuin's Steering the Craft. Highly recommended if you're interested in improving your skill with writing fiction!
