Jacob Szymanski

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There's a 1969 interview with Frank Herbert, the author of the Dune series, where at one point he talks about something called phraseology, essentially the study of sentence structure.

And he relates it to something he saw as being crucial in crafting quality prose for his works.

And that's controlling the reader's rhythm.

how do you control the reader's rhythm well he does that by varying the length of sentences varying sentence structure like putting the action at the front in one sentence and then at the end at the other and then he'll even make sure that the words within a sentence are of varying lengths so have a couple two syllable words couple one syllable words and maybe a three or

four syllable word here and there, switch it up.

The goal is to keep his writing from being rhythmically monotonous.

And people who do a lot of public speaking know that being deliberate in your pacing and varying your pacing is super important for maintaining the crowd's engagement.

And this is true whether you're talking to a crowd of a thousand people or just one friend at a coffee shop.

And Frank Herbert recognized this, but he took it further.