It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences : A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2013) Through richly detailed vignettes--by turns

Through richly detailed vignettes--by turns bitter

In Bringing Up Girls

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With the bracing candor

and myths about everything from vampires to werewolves to immortality

It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences : A Writer's Guide to Crafting Killer Sentences Milwaukee County Teen Book Award Nominee (2013) Through richly detailed vignettes--by turnsGreat writing isnt born, its builtsentence by sentence. But too many writersand writing guidesoverlook this most important unit. The result? Manuscripts that will never be published and writing careers that will never begin. In this wickedly humorous manual, language columnist June Casagrande uses grammar and syntax to show exactly what makes some sentences greatand other sentences suck. With chapters on Conjunctions That Kill and Words Gone Wild,