Read Your Way Through Seoul
Han Kang grew up in Seoul, a city that embraces “thousands of years of turbulence.” She recommends reading that draws from the various eras that have made up her hometown.
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Han Kang grew up in Seoul, a city that embraces “thousands of years of turbulence.” She recommends reading that draws from the various eras that have made up her hometown.
MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: May 31, 2021 20 Poets and musicians know the importance of cadence, yet music of the line is equally important in prose. In drafts, where you’re pounding the story out quickly, sentences will be comprised of weak verbs, wordy construction, and poor cadence. One of my critique partners pointed out how this passage in my current manuscript, “lacks oomph. It sounds like a police report.” He rolls his own snowball and tosses, but Archer ducks and it misses her and hits the fence. She tromps away from him toward the front yard. He makes another snowball and fo...