Yogesh Kumar

As a self-taught writer who has taken the long, winding road towards writing and literary efforts, I was slow to learn about writing long sentences, both how to do so and why one might want to do so, but finally was enlightened by three articulate authors and their books: Ursula Le Guin, the respected science fiction and fantasy writer, author of and the popular children’s series, encourages long sentences in her how-to book on writing, by quoting a 354-word sentence from Mark Twain’ which takes the long, slow route – Le Guin calls it the “marvelously supple connections of complex syntax” – to describing the details of a sunrise over the Mississippi River, including the sights, sounds, and smells of the unfolding morning; the second book which is less artistic, but perhaps more helpful to me personally was Ann Long knife, Ph.D and K.D. Sullivan’s book,