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SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) has a wonderful writer’s retreat each year. One year Darcy Pattison presented a discussion on the power of words, especially the energy of vowels.<\/p>\nSCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) has a wonderful writer’s retreat each year. One year Darcy Pattison presented a discussion on the power of words, especially the energy of vowels.<\/p>\n
As readers and writers her ideas will shed light on how authors heighten energy in their stories. Here are a few details that may inspire you to occasionally stop and re-read for a different purpose.<\/p>\n
**High energy vowels include long e (tree), short i (sit) and long a (say). Compare these two sentences. Decide which provides more energy into the writing.<\/p>\n
The autumn I was seventeen, the nightmare were particularly frequent.<\/em><\/p>\n In the autumn of my eighteenth year, the dreams plagued me.<\/em><\/p>\n Darcy see the second as having a stronger sensory affect.<\/p>\n In the great green room<\/em> SCBWI (Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators) has a wonderful writer’s retreat each year. One year Darcy Pattison presented a discussion on the power of words, especially the energy of vowels. As readers and writers her ideas will shed light on how authors heighten energy in their stories. Here are a few details that may inspire you to occasionally stop and re-read for a different purpose. **High energy vowels include long e (tree), short i (sit) and long a (say). Compare these two sentences. Decide which provides more energy into the writing. The autumn I was seventeen, the nightmare...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,68,180,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-details-in-writing","category-editing","category-reader-suggestions","category-writing-process"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2082"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2082\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/paddyeger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/mopmugbone.jpg\")
** Low energy words include short o (mop), short u (mug), long o (bone), short oo (book), long oo (tooth), and long u (cute). These also have a place in writing and for readers. They relax, lull, ease, a reader’s mood. Darcy suggests reading Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown. Here’s an excerpt:<\/p>\n
\n There was a telephone and a red balloon<\/em>
\n And a picture of the cow jumping over the moon<\/em>
\n And there were three little bears sitting on chairs<\/em>
\n And two little kittens and a pair of mittens<\/em>
\n And a little toy house and a young mouse<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"