: Re: How do I control my writing style? In one of the answers to a question of mine here, someone said that cadence does not depend on the sprung rhythm of a text, but on making emphasis fall

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The first thing to note is that making prose style sound too much like poetry doesn't make it sound right. It still has to sound like prose.
What I found useful was not so much consciously attending to the style structure as reading great stylists and writing imitations of them. Often horrendously bad imitations, but it helped master getting the words to leap through the hoops with grace.

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