Sentence a Day

I'm challenging you to join me in a fun project that's sure to make us all better writers and analytical readers.

When we learn to read with a writer's eye, we see syntax--in all its beauty. We notice how author's carefully craft their ideas, making them sparkle and jump and scintillate on the page and sear into our minds and hearts and souls. To learn to wield the pen powerfully and artfully is both a challenge and a blessing.

The journey to this blessed challenge begins with reading carefully, not just to appreciate the story but also to revel in the author's magic.

So, join me in reading and writing a sentence a day. The task is simple:

1. In your reading (not an Internet search--but your actual daily reading) find a glorious sentence, one that sparkles and speaks to you.
2. Publish the sentence in a blog post, noting the source and author.
3. Explain what syntactical structures/devices the author has used.
4. Using the sentence as a model, write your own sentence that mimics the structures/devices that author uses.
5. Publish the post, and label it with this tag: sentenceaday.
6. Make your post title the sentence number: Sentence 1.
   
7. Tag it in Delicious with this tag: cafe19sentenceaday. Notice the tag is all lower case with NO spaces.
8. Repeat for eleven days so that you accumulate 12 posts, each with a professional model and your own sentence. Deadline to finish is Monday, October 12.

I'm doing this with you! Check out my first post.

Photo Credit: Photo modified from original photo by tonyhall.