Improving one’s prose in minutes #2: Pleonasms – Issa A. Dioume

Short note on pleonasm, and easy exercise to check understanding.

#1 Short-story by Issa Dioume (THE CLICHED DETECTIVE-STORY)

Victor Verdun is fifty years old. He sits at his desk, thinking and despondent.

Style Training With Ursula K. Le Guin, Exercise.2: Am I Saramago {2nd attempt}

My 2nd Attempt At this Challenging Stylistic Exercise. Please, do tell me how I did this time around!

Style Training With Ursula K. Le Guin, Exercise.2: Am I Saramago {1st attempt}

3rd Writing Exercise With Writing Legend: Ursula K. Le Guin 📖 ✍️

The Fall [Short-Story] by Issa Dioume

Loyally, We All Must Fall. 💧 💫

Style Training With Ursula K. Leguin, Exercise.1; Part.2

Writing Training Following Ursula K. Le Guin’s Guidance 📖 📚

Style Training With Ursula K. Leguin, Exercise.1; Part.1

Writing Training Following Ursula K. Le Guin’s Guidance 📚 📖

Style Training With Ursula K. Le Guin[Project Explained]

Detailing The Reasoning Behind My New Project to Better My Writing ✍️

The Healing, Part.1 [ Short-Story Series] by Issa Dioume

After a war. How can you ever get better? Will the pain ever go away? Can you... heal?

Jenny Ran Sur The Colline —- French & English !But, Same Themes & Ideas (By Issa Dioume in collaboration with Aimé Lesot)

Jenny courait sur la colline. Ses fossettes creusaient ses joues, témoignaient de sa joie manifeste. Ses pieds martelaient le chemin en terre, laissaient des empruntes et délogeaient les petits cailloux de leur cratère dorénavant appauvris. Devant: un horizon sans ligne - seulement de grands arbres, feutrant les rayons du soleil. Derrière: seulement le souvenir de …