The Rhythm of Revision: How to Hear and Shape Your Sentences

Rhythm is one of the most subtle tools in a writer’s kit.

It’s what makes a sentence linger in the mind or skim lightly past. Some prose gallops, some meanders, some circles like a song you can’t stop humming. Readers may not always notice it consciously, but they feel it — in the pace at which their eyes move, in the places they pause, in the weight of what stays with them after the page is turned.