Gary Provost was born in 1944 and died in 1995. He was the author of many books across a range of genres including four award-winning young adult novels. Provost was also a highly sought after writing instructor and published a number of writing advice books including Make Every Word Count (Writers Digest Books, 1980). Read more about Gary Provost at garyprovost.com, a site established and maintained by his wife Gail.
I love love love this! Is it weird that I always look at my sentence lengths when I’m writing. Super interesting. Thank you for sharing!
Alan is right. If anything, it could use a semi-color right before “it is important” at the end.
Better would be to insert quotes including “Listen to this; this is important.”
No semi-colon The sentence reads “sounds that say listen to this” “sounds that say this is important.” A semi-colon would indicate that “this is important” is not the object of “sounds that say” and would change the entire meaning of the sentence.
Agreed. Semi-colon changes the very end into something else. The writer thought it through and wants the reader to keep the messages together, lyrical.