5 ways to teach the link between grammar and imagination for better creative writing

Brett Healey

By Brett Healey
Community contribution / August 11, 2021

Fiction authors are pretty good at writing sentences with striking images, worded just the right way.

We might suppose the images are striking because the author has a striking imagination. But the words seem just right ...

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