Make it sing

How can you take serviceable writing to the next level, and make it sing? Bret Rappaport has an answer: make your language more musical by minding its rhythm, flow, and tone. Get that right, and your writing will not only be more aesthetically pleasing; it will be more persuasive. Interested? Then read Bret’s article, Using the Elements of Rhythm, Flow, and Tone to Create a More Effective and Persuasive Acoustic Experience in Legal Writing.

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[Tom McSherry]

When I was still at university and I did an advanced creative writing class, my teacher used to say I might as well be a poet because all the prose I wrote came out "singing." I pay a lot of attention to flow and rhythym in everything I write, and I credit that largely to having read Faulkner, Kerouac and ee cummings at a fairly young age - all men who understood you could throw grammar to the wind if you could make words "sing."