The rule of thirds is one of the first composition techniques new photographers learn once they’ve figured out how to get sharp focus. I’ve written about therule of thirds in detailbefore and said then that I’d write a follow up article on the importance of the intersections of the th...
The rule of three is based on the technique that people tend to remember three things. In oratoration it comes up all the time. So by repeating something three times or using the alliteration with three words, a quite ordinary speech becomes quite emotive. Good speeches are peppered with lis...
Just play. Happy writing! Recommended reading on rhythm and varying sentence length: How to write a dazzling long sentence Word repetition: How to make your writing resonate How the rule of three puts music into your writing Enjoyed this? Get my fortnightly newsletter in your inbox > > > ...
The “rule of three” is a powerful rhetorical device called a tricolon that’s usually used in speechwriting to help make an idea more memorable. A tricolon is a series of three parallel elements of roughly the same length — think, “I came; I saw; I conquered.” What I like: This...
Elements of a plot The only rule for writing a plot is that it needs to contain these three elements: Character Causation Conflict The character is the person (or animal, or in some cases, object) that faces the plot’s obstacles. It’swhothe story is about, and this can be one chara...
in the middle of a sentence and think about how to pronounce the plurals ofrate, race, orraid. Even though the plurals of all three of these words are pronounced differently, we learned at a very young age that the different forms are predictable and how to predict them. Mistakes inusage...
Possessive nouns and pronouns can be tricky until you learn the rules. Fortunately, with a bit of practice, you can get them right, every time. And if you don’t remember all the rules, that’s fine too. ProWritingAid’s Realtime Report is always there to help if you get it wrong....
Do you have trouble with writing and punctuating long sentences? I explain how to write difficult sentences correctly using the concept of parallelism.
It's also not a new thing. We've been categorizing literature like this for thousands of years. Some of the oldest forms of writing, including religious texts, were tied directly into this idea of genre. For example, forty percent of the Old Testament in the Bible is actually poetry, one...
A simple rule for using numbers in writing is that small numbers ranging from one to ten (or one to nine, depending on the style guide) should generally be spelled out. Larger numbers (i.e., above ten) are written as numerals.