[This is part of an ongoing ChurchMag series, A Dutch-Girl’s Guide to Becoming a Better Writer.]
This year, I finally did something that had been on my to do list for a long time: I started learning to play the drums. You know what’s the hardest when you start out? To keep a steady rhythm.
It’s not the technical stuff that’s hardest to master, like how to hold the drum sticks, or how to do a fill. It’s sticking to the beat—the steady rhythm of the music. It’s easy to lose the beat, to go a little faster or slower than you did before or than you’re supposed to.
In writing, there’s also a rhythm, a beat. It’s hard to analyze, but you ‘feel’ it when you read a blog post, article, or book. When everything flows smoothly, when you glide from one sentence to the next, from one paragraph into another without skipping a beat, that’s when you know the writing has rhythm.
So what is this rhythm made up of? There are several factors at work:
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