"What would I do to save the world if I were a middle-aged, middle-class woman? Write novels and worry."

3/3

"What would I do to save the world if I were omnipotent? But I am not, so the question is trivial.

2/3

"And this seems to go on into adulthood, that men just can’t have their masculinity compromised even by pretending to be a heroine for a little while. This strikes me as kind of sad and probably not necessary.”

—Ursula K. Le Guin, in an interview with Bill Moyers

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"Girls are used to pretending to be men and women protagonists. Boys very often refuse to identify with a woman protagonist in kids books.

(2/3)

OK, maybe that last one isn't for Virginia to decide, but hey, now you know what asyndeton is. You're welcome?

How can opening and closing a paragraph with simple sentences help you get across complex ideas?

Is piling prepositional phrases one on top of another actually serving your story?

How many times can you employ asyndeton (omitting a conjunction) before the magic is gone?

Artful Sentences uses excerpts from fiction and nonfiction to demonstrate different elements of syntax and elucidate the effects they might produce in the mind of the reader.

Simple sentences, noun & verb phrases, independent & dependent clauses, appositives, parallelism... Virginia's got it all!

Ahem, I mean, uh, what's your take on the Oxford comma? Comment down below!

How about an AI that disrupts this pipeline of mediocre men who think that the sum of human creation is somehow improved upon by training LLMs on stolen work and then thanking those aggrieved #writers and #artists (and #editors!) with unemployment?

@#$% outta here.

I envy anyone reading the Earthsea books for the first time. Le Guin was a peerless master of her craft.

For what it's worth, I believe in you!

Ursula doesn't miss. Hope she helps you like she helped me!