"Beneath the Cinnamon Tree"

eurotripper:

winter in regensburg by Robert Schüller

iwasadreamerbeforeyou:

Florence by ChrisYunker on Flickr.

eurotripper:

amsterdam by Nastasiya-k

"This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important."

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Gary Provost (via qmsd)

This might be my favourite quote on writing ever.

(via bdoing)

(via shotgunanderson)

allthingseurope:

Berchtesgaden National Park, Germany (by katepedley)