How to Write Sentences Sharp Enough to Slice the Shadow Off The Moon

Autumn Christian
5 min readAug 15, 2020

My goal has always been to have someone be able to open a book of mine and immediately recognize it as an Autumn Christian novel. Writers like Bukowski, Faulkner, Pahlanuik, and Poppy Z. Brite are immediately identifiable because of the way they structure their prose. I consider it the mark of a highly-skilled writer to write sentences that are impressed with their DNA…

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Autumn Christian

I write about writing, existential horrors, love, and what it means to be human. https://teachrobotslove.substack.com/