{"id":489,"date":"2013-02-13T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/three-writing-strategies-sss5x3-redundancy-on-purpose-and-repeating-sentence-structures\/"},"modified":"2015-05-27T17:06:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T21:06:17","slug":"three-writing-strategies-sss5x3-redundancy-on-purpose-and-repeating-sentence-structures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/three-writing-strategies-sss5x3-redundancy-on-purpose-and-repeating-sentence-structures\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Writing Strategies: SSS5X3, Redundancy on Purpose, and Repeating Sentence Structures"},"content":{"rendered":"

We teach three writing strategies in our books that I just heard used wonderfully together in Michael Connelly’s new novel (The Black Box<\/i>). (I listen to fiction sometimes while I clean, drive, edit, etc., since time is short here!)<\/span>
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“The store owners shot looters. The National Guardsmen shot looters. And looters shot looters.”<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Three elements to try to incorporate in your writing this week:<\/p>\n

1. SS<\/b>S5 x 3<\/b>—Super Short Sentence of Five Words or Fewer Three Times in a Row<\/p>\n

2. Redundancy on Purpose<\/b>! Way cool when redundancy (repeating the same words) is done on purpose!)<\/p>\n

3. Repeating sentence structure-<\/b>-Subject-Verb-Object<\/wbr> Pattern<\/p>\n

Try one–or all three–this week!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We teach three writing strategies in our books that I just heard used wonderfully together in Michael Connelly’s new novel (The Black Box). (I listen to fiction sometimes while I clean, drive, edit, etc., since time is short here!) “The store owners shot looters. The National Guardsmen shot looters. And looters shot looters.” Three elements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[628,640,82,632],"tags":[232,228,231,170,229,230,227],"yoast_head":"\nThree Writing Strategies: SSS5X3, Redundancy on Purpose, and Repeating Sentence Structures - Character Ink<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/three-writing-strategies-sss5x3-redundancy-on-purpose-and-repeating-sentence-structures\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Three Writing Strategies: SSS5X3, Redundancy on Purpose, and Repeating Sentence Structures - Character Ink\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We teach three writing strategies in our books that I just heard used wonderfully together in Michael Connelly’s new novel (The Black Box). 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