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Self-Editing Tips: Giving your readers "feels"—Visual Breaks Part 2

Updated: Jul 31


Self-Editing Tips: Giving your readers "feels"—Visual Breaks Part 2

Self-Editing Tips—The Power of Visual Break Case Study


In Part 1, we talked about writing not just so the words create an image in the readers head, but I gave you self-editing tips so that they create a visually pleasing corresponding image on the page.


Literally, with line and scene breaks and deliberately placed blocks of text.


Today, I want to do a sort of case study for this using Nobel Prize Winner for Literature, José Saramago's brilliant but disturbing horror Blindness.