Stunning Sentences
by Nina SchuylerStunning Sentences
About the Substack
Admiring, mooning over, loving, and learning to write stunning sentences
Free Subscription Benefits
- Once a week a stunning sentence with instructions how to make it.
Paid Subcription Benefits
- Once a week you'll receive a stunning sentence with instructions how to make it. Sentence Intensive: Five days of sentences and a warm, wonderful writing community!
- A monthly Zoom gathering for 90 minutes. If you can't attend, I'll send you the recording and the analysis of the sentences.
- Access to the archive--over 200 sentences analyzed. Sentence Intensives! Five days of stunning sentences and comments!
Paid Subscription Plans
- $6 a month
- $55 a year
About Nina Schuyler
Nina Schuyler's new novel, OPEN THE FLOODGATES, will be released Sept 15, 2026. Her short story collection, IN THIS RAVISHING WORLD, won the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Northern California Book Award.
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